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unwind on June 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Merge Pull Request Considered Harmful

It's a meme, sort of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful.

rrss1122 on June 26, 2014 | [–]

Like all memes, it is mindlessly implemented to look "cool" or "clever".

McGuffin on June 26, 2014 | [–]

A more precise term would probably be snowclone.

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