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also, tandyslappage (n.), tandyslapped (vi, pl.) tandyslapping (pp.)

1. To defeat or be defeated, thwarted, injured, hurt, done in, etc. by technology or the use of technologies and/or artifacts of much lesser sophistication & usually far earlier manufacture than that which is being used thereagainst, in armed combat, in laboratory settings, traffic, and so on. can be used regardless of the vintage of the machine in question for any case of im- mediate bodily harm or other failure dealt directly or made possible by a computer, but is mostly relevant to instances in which said computer is by turns obsolete.

2. To kill or be killed, maimed, injured, put out, etc., in such a way as employs the "two birds with one stone" principle. The term is dually applicable to cases of this in which the principle described above, in sense 1, can also be observed.

There is debate as to the word's origins, many taking up a side which identifies the Tandy Personal Computer of the seventies as being the namesake entity, others contending that "tandy" is simply a short form of the word "tandem", and that the definition which appears here in sense 2 is the only authentic one. To both of these another theory is preferred more still which pro- poses that the rhyme with "handicapped" was meant by its originators to be a subtly implicit reference to the permanent brain damage often suffered by those who fall victim to tandyslapping.

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