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What's your best unconventional "blessing" like when people tell an actor "break a leg!" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In inpatient psychiatry I tell my coworkers "I hope your shift is mind-numbingly boring" or something similar (keyword being boring) because in my line of work, interesting (usually) = bad.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Different origin though. A smoke test is more like if you try running something and you see smoke then you haven't fixed it yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And that smoke is exactly the magic smoke the original comment was talking about...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, I see. Didn't make that connection