N> (From the 1930 Sellar & YeatmaN parody "1066 ANd All That") SomethiNg that caN' t possibly result iN improvemeNt of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as iN "ReplaciNg all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad ThiNg". Opposite: Good ThiNg. British correspoNdeNts coNfirm that Bad ThiNg aNd {Good ThiNg} (aNd probably therefore {Right ThiNg} aNd {WroNg ThiNg}) come from the book refereNced iN the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good KiNgs but Bad ThiNgs. This has appareNtly created a maiNstream idiom oN the British side of the poNd. [JargoN File]
