False pride in a task that is soon to be irrelevant, usually one that involves minor improvements to a something fundamentally broken (e.g., attempting a refactoring exercise on a piece of code that isn't worth refactoring. How do you know if a piece of code is worth refactoring? If it looks like a turd, and smells like a turd, ... it's a turd.)

''("You can't polish a turd, but you can stick a flag in the top")'' ["I claim this turd in the name of <insert soon-to-be-dead project name here>!"]

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On the MythBusters TV show, they successfully polished 2 balls of turds. Not a pleasant episode.
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