It's Overloading the Machine as in, the washing machine, primarily. The name comes from the laundromat next door. They have very large signs on each machine which say, in all-caps, "DO NOT OVERLOAD THE MACHINE". All in all, there are at least twenty of these signs posted.
Both at the laundromat and at home, I regularly overload the machine, leading to unpredictable results.
There is no comment on pictures //
but pictures, on music but music, //
on poems but poetry //
if you do, you do //
if you don't, you don't //
and that's all there is to that //
-- William Carlos Williams
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