burble v.
[from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly
clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term
of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about
how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's
fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England.
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buried treasure n.
A surprising piece of code found in some program. While
usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered
only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is.
Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything
but treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be
dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its
queue using bubble sort!
Buried treasure!"