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by w0mbat 2015 days ago
It's "boilerplate".

It's because a reusable letterpress metal plate of text is called a "boilerplate" because it looks like the manufacturer's nameplate on a steam-train's boiler. That led to any reusable block of text being called "boilerplate". No BBQ equipment was involved.

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Indeed, I wrote it on my phone, brisket wins on iOS apparently. I usually write it boiler-plate.
No worries.