pointy-haired adj. after the character in the dilbert comic strip
   describes the extreme form of the property that separates suits and
   marketroids from hackers. compare brain-dead; demented; see phb.
   always applied to people, never to ideas. the plural form is often used
   as a noun. "the pointy-haireds ordered me to use windows nt, but i set
   up a linux server with samba instead."


see also:
dilbert suit marketroid brain-dead demented phb