Near Eleusis, in Attica, there lurked a bandit named Damastes, called Procrustes, or "The Stretcher." He had an iron bed on which travelers who fell into his hands were compelled to spend the night. His humor was to stretch the ones who were too short until they died, or, if they were too tall, to cut off as much of their limbs as would make them short enough. None could resist him, and the surrounding countryside became a desert.
A ProcrusteanBed is any attempt to reduce all men to one form. Many UserInterfaces can be accused of being ProcrusteanBed.