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Here are some Coderbonics (words and phrases for the software world) I've encountered recently:

• Shit the bed - when something goes terribly wrong, esp. when something crashes. "They loaded 5,000 files into it, and completely shit the bed."
• Sausage Case - a bug a customer encounters that either lasts a long time or causes lots of damage before it's fixed. The thinking being, that the bug was so bad you need to send them a fruit basket, and not just any old fruit basket with apples and pears in it, you need to send them one of the ritzy ones with sausage in it.
• The Circle of Life - as mentioned in passing below, "a new model/process/product/concept is proposed, everyone shoots it down, a more traditional model/process/product/concept is suggested, everyone realizes the more traditional approach won't work or isn't so great, a new model/process/product/concept is proposed (usually the same one)...repeat." For example, "Didn't we suggest this 3 months ago and they said it was crap...and now they want it back? Yes, we did. Ahh...The Circle of Life."