"scatological" means literally the science of ..ah.. animal waste, to put it politely.  The word is often used to describe jokes or comments referring to this smelly subject in a polite way. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wouter van Ooijen [mailto:wouter@voti.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:57 AM
> To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
> Subject: RE: [AD] Looking for work (style guide)
> 
> > As far as the scatological
> 
> sorry, non-english background, what the ^&*&^ does that word mean?
> 
> > Feel free to add some similarly worded, but advanced,
> > concepts of C style!
> 
> sorry, I can't (or rather: I can't without specifying the audience much
> better), reason below :)
> 
> > >
> > > First: such rules are never absolute, everything is relative to the
> > > intended audience.
> 
> I do give some guidelines in my C classes, but they are always just
> guidelines, along the lines of 'try to find out what works for you, be
> aware that that will change over the years, and be prepared to accept
> whatever rules the corporate guru has drafted, unless you are of the Don
> Quichote type'.
> 
> But note that the fact that you have drafted such rules *for yourself*
> is perfectly within the above advice. It is the guys who try to give
> such rules absolute power that I am up against.
> 
> Wouter van Ooijen
> 
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