In inpatient psychiatry I tell my coworkers “I hope your shift is mind-numbingly boring” or something similar (keyword being boring) because in my line of work, interesting (usually) = bad.
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“Don’t let the magic smoke out!”
In electrical/computer/embedded engineering, we have a running gag that microchips work by trapping magic smoke inside, and when you do something wrong, you “let out” the magic smoke.
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Different origin though. A smoke test is more like if you try running something and you see smoke then you haven’t fixed it yet
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And that smoke is exactly the magic smoke the original comment was talking about…
