That mental note sign you put on something to denote its not well understood and likely to fail at some point. You promptly forget about it and years later a resultant disaster occurs.
the designer had second thoughts about the usefulness of the alarm and made a mental note disasterisk to re-think it. Years later the alarm was ignored and the reactor subsequently blew up.
by retiredengr April 1, 2011
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