drool-proof paper

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drool-proof paper - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  drool-proof paper
  
     <jargon> Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down
     , to the point where only a cretin could bear to read
     it, is said to have succumbed to the "drool-proof paper
     syndrome" or to have been "written on drool-proof paper".  For
     example, this is an actual quote from Apple Computer's
     LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open
     fire or flame."
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-06-23)
  

drool-proof paper - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  drool-proof paper
   n.
  
     Documentation that has been obsessively dumbed down, to the point
     where only a cretin could bear to read it, is said to have
  succumbed
     to the `drool-proof paper syndrome' or to have been `written on
     drool-proof paper'. For example, this is an actual quote from Apple's
     LaserWriter manual: "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or
     flame." The SGI Indy manual included the line "[Do not] dangle the
     mouse by the cord or throw it at coworkers."