Years ago, a late friend and I had a little ritual. One of us would be hunched over a terminal in the operations booth of our workplace's datacenter, trying to figure out why $critical_service was not coming back up after patching. The other would see the alert in Intermapper, come downstairs, and amongst the alarms and ringing phones, solemnly intone:

"Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I have come to the conclusion that your new defense system...sucks."

This always managed to lighten the mood.