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/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German
acronym for stupidest imaginable user. From the
engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall
(worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm
plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. In
popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case
nuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.
(1994-12-06)