Monty
/mon'tee/ [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories.
The original monty was an infamous weather-reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS.
Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all monty actually *did* was FTP files off the network.
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