copious free time

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copious free time - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  copious free time
  
     <jargon> (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom
     Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used
     ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in
     question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks
     held to be unlikely or impossible.  Sometimes used to indicate
     that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but
     believes that the opportunity will not arise.  "I'll implement
     the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time."
  
     The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or
     otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad
     chrome, or the stroking of suits.  "I'll get back to him
     on that feature in my copious free time."
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1994-11-30)
  

copious free time - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  copious free time
   n.
  
     [Apple; orig. fr. the intro to Tom Lehrer's song It Makes A Fellow
     Proud To Be A Soldier]
  
     1. [used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in
     question] A mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be
     unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker
  is
     interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the
     opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout
  stuff
     in my copious free time."
  
     2. [Archly] Time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such
     as implementation of chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get
     back to him on that feature in my copious free time."