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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :   [ jargon ]

  pointy-haired adj. [after the character in the Dilbert comic strip]
     Describes the extreme form of the property that separates suits and
     marketroids from hackers. Compare brain-dead; demented; see PHB.
     Always applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used
     as a noun. "The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set
     up a Linux server with Samba instead."
  
  

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