I've always used " the pase of the third moon of Jupiter to explain
weird non repeatable problems on the industrial machines I've supported
over the years.
Ted

Jinx wrote:

>
>Phase of the moon /n./ Used humorously as a random parameter on
>which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability
>of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent
>on conditions nobody has been able to determine. "This feature
>depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo
>switch set, and on the phase of the moon." See also heisenbug
>
>

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