>As an electronics tech, we have an acronym  pertaining to theory
>as 'PFM'.  (In the US Navy, we called it 'Pure F...ing Magic).
>Pretty Fine Magic is much more polite, however.

When I was doing computer repair a colleague told me of a story about a 
repair job he had. Went to customer site, sorted out the problem, and the 
customer happened to pass some remark about how the previous service call 
some time back had been rather expensive, apparently the HPFM generator had 
been replaced.

Colleague gets back to workshop, looks up customer history, and sure enough 
there was an account to replace the HPFM generator. Calls up Tech concerned, 
to find out what the story is, and apparently said Tech had spent a rather 
long time on site, without finding what the fault was. Eventually everything 
just started working, and he couldn't make it fail. So he billed the 
customer an appropriate amount of time as an 'HPFM Generator's.

So the inevitable question - what is an HPFM generator? Oh that is a High 
Power F..... Magic Generator ... 

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