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scrog /skrog/ vt.

[Bell Labs] To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure. “The list header got scrogged.” Also reported as skrog, and ascribed to the comic strip The Wizard of Id. Compare scag; possibly the two are related. Equivalent to scribble or mangle.

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The crunchly saga

The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions.