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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
wave a dead chicken
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
v. To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware that
one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that others are
satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been expended. I'll wave
a dead chicken over the source code, but I really think we've run into an OS
bug. Compare voodoo programming , rain dance ; see also casting the runes.