I didn't mention the FIRST thing I did was take the Dell outdoors and blow the TONS of dust and dust bunnies out its interior, the CPU heatsink and the power supply with my power blower...I wouldn't even bring it into my house like it was. The fan may have lasted a little longer if it hadn't been spending its life on a cement warehouse floor!
I may have used it before on IPCT when discussing weatherproofing a camera pigtail.
I inherited the trait of using colorful, humorous descriptive examples such as that (not sure what they're called...they're not euphemisms, similes or allegories) from my late dad.......but his dad, my late grand dad, was the all-time champ. All 3 of us being born and raised in a north Georgia rural area probably helped too....
Yeah i have to post a picture of the network rack maybe tomorrow .. not sure how this even works. Looking forward to it...there's special thread for such pictures on IPCT ==> Wall of Shame
Much like in Naval Air avionics where there's an overabundance of acronyms like TACAN, RADAR, SCUBA and even SNAFU and FUBAR, we'd make a simple solution to an electronic/electrical issue sound complicated, such as: "The O-N-O-F-F switch was in the O-F-F position"
Reminds me of watching singer John Hyatt on video, He sang a song he had written about finding out his wife was cheating on him with his best freind. He called the song "Since His Penis Came Between Us".