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An alternative is to add a duck, or something else gratuitously out of place.

• jpdoctor 14y ago
  Yet another case of rubber duck debugging FTW.
  • rogerbinns 14y ago
    Nope, a reference to the duck in battle chess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law_of_triviality#Related_principles_and_formulations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law_of_triviality#Re... and #5 at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar...
    • charlieok 14y ago
      Yup, exact same story. Apparently this happens a lot :)
    • jpdoctor 14y ago
      LOL, thank you for broadening my horizons a little.
      • Sukotto 14y ago
        You are one of today's lucky 10,000 http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/ :)
• drhowarddrfine 14y ago
  Why a duck? Why no a chicken?