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Waving a dead chicken (over it)
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Waving a dead chicken (over it) is an informal phrase used to describe a known (or suspected) useless procedure to remedy any software and/or hardware issue. This may or may not imply that an actual remedy exists, and if so, that that remedy had been attempted beforehand. The procedure may be a last ditch effort to resolve a situation, and/or possibly simply to satisfy those who refuse to accept defeat. The term may be derived from the Jewish traditional custom of Kapparot, in which a live chicken is swung over one's head as a symbol of atonement for sins: even assuming arguendo that using a live chicken would be effective, it would be agreed that using a dead chicken would not. For the story of Diogenes waving a dead chicken see Diogenes Athens (last paragraph). |
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