wave a dead chicken
<jargon> 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.
[Jargon File]
(1996-09-08)
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