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Back in the day when I worked in an engineering department attached to the factory floor of a large Unix hardware manufacturer, we kept a rubber chicken in the server room. It was kept on prominent display on one of the server cabinets, and was there to be ritually sacrificed to the SCSI gods when we couldn't get one of the servers to see its storage. Management was well aware of its purpose of the chicken, and that it was used quite regularly, as it was cited in the weekly team meetings on several occasions as the method by which a system was fixed.