But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??

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    The movie Brazil features a literal bug in a system as a plot device.

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    lol just yesterday my brother found a moth in the welder that caused it to not push material through the tip

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    And spam (like spam mail) is called so because of a monty python sketch referencing the canned meat with the same name.

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    Another similar naming convention in Danish is how a electric jumper/shunt (a deliberate short circuit) is called a louse. The singular form of lice.

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    we talk about gremlins in a system.

    bwg is a Welsh word that has come to mean creepy crawly, but also means spooky ghosty.