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}}Legal algebra. A variable. A textual placeholder interspersed in your boilerplate to indicate numerical things or proper nouns to be added later. So named because the most popular blobs are in fact, well, blobs: [·] [•] [●] | |||
Blobs are silly fripperies for a number of reasons. Firstly, especially for technology-challenged [[legal eagle]]s, they’re hard to find on the keyboard — you usually need to faff around with the “insert symbol” menu — and secondly because there are at least three ''types'' of blob: thin ones, middle-sized ones and fat-ones. Each has a different ASCII code, and given the number of [[iatrogenic]] hands through which your document will pass, the likelihood that everyone settles on the same type of blob is low. Thus, mechanically finding and replacing blobs is fraught, and you can never be entirely certain you’ve found them all. | |||
A blob is [[legal markup]] of ''nil'' significance, and as such is not to be confused with a [[Biggs hoson]], being a [[legal markup]] of infinitesimally small, but ''some'' legal significance. | |||
A blob is [[legal markup]] of nil significance, and as such is not to be confused with a [[Biggs hoson]], being a [[legal markup]] of infinitesimally small, but ''some'' legal significance. | |||