The Nerd's Eye View

I had no idea this word existed, or what it meant. Frankly it sounds made up, doesn't it? I ran across the abbreviation BOUS in one of our parameter sets when I first started working at the Blue Beast. It seems that it is a holdover from the days of [begin dork-speak segment] screw-actuated stages, which were not always perfectly matched, leading to a different overlay offset depending on what direction you were scanning[end dork-speak segment]. Hence, as the plough furrows. I learned all this from my colleague who owns that particular part of the process.

The problem of course is that the word sounds completely fake, in the same way that budonkadonk does. That's compounded with my colleague's dead pan delivery to almost anything. Just listen to yourself saying the word: boo-strof-a-donic.

"Did you hear that new Black Eyed Peas song? It's boustrophedonic yo!"

"Twenty dollars for that? That's boustrophedonic!"

"I'm sorry, sir, your wound, it's gone boustrophedonic, we'll have to amputate."

It's amazing that a word like this really exists, and it's a pity we can't put it to more use.