@b0rk The Arcanist: "I'm stuck on this problem that seems really weird." "First thing to try is <thing that's obvious to everybody familiar with the details of that specific thing, which is to say maybe three of the people you'll ever meet>." "Thanks, that worked." (These tend to also be grumpy old timers and there's some overlap with the 'I've read the entire internet'.)

Also the 'back up three steps': What are you really trying to do here? Would this other approach be a better way to do that?