pointy-haired

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pointy-haired - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  pointy-haired
   adj.
  
     [after the character in the Dilbert comic strip] Describes the
     extreme form of the property that separates suits and marketroids
     from hackers. Compare brain-dead; demented; see PHB. Always
     applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used as a
     noun. "The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set up
  a
     Linux server with Samba instead."