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wave a dead chicken
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wave a dead chicken /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.
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