rain dance

Ceremonial dance performed to bring rain needed to water crops. Rain dances have been customary in many cultures, from the ancient Egyptians to the civilization of the Mayas and the people of the 20th-century Balkans. Rain dances often include dancing in a circle, the participation of young girls, decoration with green vegetation, nudity, the pouring of water, and whirling, meant to act as a wind charm. They may also include phallic and fertility rites.

1.		rain dance - Any ceremonial action taken to correct a hardware problem, with the expectation that nothing will be accomplished. This especially applies to reseating printed circuit boards, reconnecting cables, etc. "I can't boot up the machine. We'll have to wait for Greg to do his rain dance."
2.		rain dance - Any arcane sequence of actions performed with computers or software in order to achieve some goal; the term is usually restricted to rituals that include both an incantation or two and physical activity or motion. Compare magic, voodoo programming, black art, cargo cult programming, wave a dead chicken.

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No references found	After 30 years at my current place of employment, and having become a historian of sorts, I continue to dance to more or less the same tunes and, as Brian Quinn of Dartmouth University pointed out so poignantly, the "weather" has changed little, although the rain dancing is much improved. Strategic planning in health care: the results are everything ... Or ... by Schidlow, Daniel V. / Physician Executive It is obviously huge for us and for golf in Wales," said Dredge, who admitted there was some rain dancing going on behind the scenes after he was woken up in the night by the latest of several torrential downpours. Welsh heroes dance in rain by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) It is obviously huge for us and for golf in Wales," said Dredge, who admitted there was some rain dancing going on behind the scenes after he was woken up in the night by the latest of several torrential downpours. Golf: Different strokes for duo by Birmingham Mail (England)	Railroad-Car Washing Station Rails-To-Trails Conservancy Railtown 1897 State Historic Park railway railway artillery railway carriage railway dry dock railway end-loading ramp railway engineering Railway Express Agency railway mount Railway War RAIM Raimar, Freimund Raimondi, Marcantonio Raimondo Montecuccoli Raimund, Ferdinand Rain rain and snow mixed rain area report rain attenuation rain cap rain cloud rain crust rain dance Rain dancing rain desert rain factor rain forest Rain Forests rain gage rain gush rain gust rain leader rain pillar rain prints rain rot rain shadow rain stage rain tree rain-gage shield rain-intensity gage Rainaldi, Carlo Rainalducci, Pietro rainbird Rainbow Rainbow Bridge Rainbow Bridge National Monument Rainbow Division Rainbow Falls State Park rainbow fish	Rain and/or Fresh Water Damage rain area report rain attenuation Rain band rain barrel Rain Bird rain buckets Rain cannon Rain cannon Rain cannon rain cap rain cats and dogs rain cats and dogs rain cats and dogs rain check rain check rain check rain checks rain checks Rain City Guide Rain City Superhero Movement Rain City Yoga rain cloud rain cloud Rain coat rain crust rain dance rain dance Rain Dances Rain Dances Rain dancing rain date rain desert Rain Doll algorithm Rain Doll algorithm rain down rain down rain down on Rain drop Rain drop Rain Echo Attenuation Compensation Technique rain factor Rain Fell Within rain forest rain forest rain forest rain forest Rain Forest Aerial Trams Rain Forest International School Rain Forest Report Card Rain Forest Research Institute Rain forests Rain forests Rain forests Rain fowl rain gage rain gage rain gauge rain gauge rain gauges Rain goose

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After 30 years at my current place of employment, and having become a historian of sorts, I continue to dance to more or less the same tunes and, as Brian Quinn of Dartmouth University pointed out so poignantly, the "weather" has changed little, although the rain dancing is much improved.

Strategic planning in health care: the results are everything ... Or ... by Schidlow, Daniel V. / Physician Executive

It is obviously huge for us and for golf in Wales," said Dredge, who admitted there was some rain dancing going on behind the scenes after he was woken up in the night by the latest of several torrential downpours.

Welsh heroes dance in rain by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)

Golf: Different strokes for duo by Birmingham Mail (England)

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