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Journal of Systems Management

| July 01, 1996 | Patton, Michael | COPYRIGHT 1996 John Carroll University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Is that a great word or what!?! A guy used it the other day to describe our sometimes goofy coffee machine. "It gets all whopperjawed & makes a mess", he said. A perfect description of almost every piece of software that I have come in contact with. Not to be confused with "cattywhompus." As in, "I turned this thing on, put in all the stuff I was supposed to put in; and the next day it was all cattywhompus." To what do we attribute these phenomena?

I bet that everyone you ask that question will have a different answer. No reason to doubt that all those answers would also be correct. My guess is, though, that there would be some common threads running through those ...

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