Someguy Somewhere
The Critical Fumbler
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It's a reference to the warhammer 40k universe, the Ciaphas Cain novels in particular. They're basically Blackadder in SPAAACE. Thus they use some rather interesting lexicon for insults and phrases. While GW's fiction hasn't quite entered public domain nearly as much as say, star trek, it does get around.
40k phrase 'Going Ploin Shaped' -> British phrase 'Going Pear Shaped' = Things going horribly wrong.