Does anybody know the origin of the term? The author links to [1], which says it "probably" comes from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
According to wiktionary [2], the episode is called "Yak Shaving Day", of which a song clip can be viewed on youtube [3] and some more googling can tell you that yak shaving day is introduced in episode 3 of season 1.
But nothing about that song or episode has any relevance to the expression of yak shaving. So why did the MIT lab choose that name for the expression?
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Does anybody know the origin of the term? The author links to [1], which says it "probably" comes from a Ren & Stimpy episode.
According to wiktionary [2], the episode is called "Yak Shaving Day", of which a song clip can be viewed on youtube [3] and some more googling can tell you that yak shaving day is introduced in episode 3 of season 1.
But nothing about that song or episode has any relevance to the expression of yak shaving. So why did the MIT lab choose that name for the expression?
[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060