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

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 http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060