tits on a keyboard

jargon Small bumps on certain keycaps to help touch-typists

find the home keys (ASDF and JKL;) without looking. They are

nearly always on the "F" and "J" of a QWERTY and the "5" of

a numeric keypad. The Macintosh, perverse as usual, has

them on the "D" and "K" keys.

This term is based on the vernacular American expression "as

useful as tits on a boar" (or boar-hog, bull, bullfrog, or

many other variants), meaning "not useful".

[Jargon File]

(1998-02-25)