Psaiyan Prince Vegeta wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003 20:00:09 GMT, "sanjian" <sanjian@widomaker.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Pen^3 wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So you would have come across the sentence:
>>>   "F*ck.  The f*cking f*cker is f*cking f*cked.  F#CK!"
>>> which means:
>>>   "Oh dear.  The [piece of equipment] is broken.  What will I do?"
>>
>> That's where the term "mechanical agitation" comes in, which is
>> technical jargon for "beat the shit out of it."
>
> I prefer the term 'percussive maintenance'.

That works as well.  And you can still tell your LPO that you're performing
PMS on the item.

(for those of you who raised an eyebrow, in the navy, PMS = Preventative
Maintainence System)