Wibble

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  wibble [UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in
     "VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the 1980s and early
     1990s"] 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks
     or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups.
     "Oh, rspence is wibbling again". 2. [UK IRC] An explicit on-line no-op
     equivalent to {humma}. 3. One of the preferred {metasyntactic variable}s


     in the UK, forming a series with `wobble', `wubble', and `flob'
     (attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A
     pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e.,
     www.{foo}.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare {dub
     dub dub}).