Term of the Day: the gift that keeps on giving

"the gift that keeps on giving"--when a defective system is installed during a load in, the mechanical errors, be they automation or lighting, are ongoing and constant, and thus a gift that keeps on giving. "The badly designed center stage elevator dry faulted again. It is the gift that keeps on giving." Or it can refer to a stagehand, who makes the same mistakes over and over. "Ted missed his Act I finale cue again. He's the gift that keeps on giving."