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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
Bad and Wrong
 adj.

    [Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly
    executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast
    with, three less common terms ? Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but
    functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive
    nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use
    at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere; they are also
    in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form ?Evil and Bad and Wrong?
    (abbreviated EBW) is reported from there. There are standard abbreviations:
    they start with B&R, a typo for ?Bad and Wrong?. Consequently, B&W is
    actually ?Bad and Right?, G&R = ?Good and Wrong?, and G&W = ?Good and Right
    ?. Compare evil and rude, Good Thing, Bad Thing.


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