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Post #88,755
by static
3/16/03 11:56:54 PM
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New Where's Meekat? :-)
I know he has some stories about amusing error codes he put into a program.

And then they got triggered one day...

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
Post #89,007
by Meerkat
3/18/03 3:16:31 AM
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New Thought I'd related that tale too many times already.
However, maybe that was on the old II or Jabber or even on SleazyBoard, coz all I could find was [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=48342|this post] that I made last year.

To cut a long story short(ish), many years ago I had to write a program in VB to control a [link|http://www.olivetti.co.ls/olivetti/printers/pr2.htm|nifty receipt printer] used out in branch-land. And, got bored whilst doing all the error-checking logic.

So some of the choice error messages were "Orange Marmalade? No, it's a Paper Jam!", plus the 'parrot-y error' one mention in my old post linked above.

The help desk, upon receiving said errors (which never turned up in testing, may I add, else I may have made them more sensible), were very much 'What the ...?' but really, the tellers never mis-reported these errors, as they were non-technical folks and tended to make mistakes when reporting arcane error numbers from other applications.

My boss, fortunatey, was amused :)
John. Busy lad.
Post #89,619
by static
3/19/03 9:48:54 PM
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New Perhaps.
But I love it nonetheless. :-)

I also liked the detail when one of the support guys from level 1 encountered one of these errors for the first time - and in the field, too. He was also amused, IIRC. It probably made for a most memorable day!

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
     Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny? - (Ovid) - (17) - March 12, 2003, 07:08:06 PM EST
         Unprofessional, sexual or not. - (admin) - (5) - March 12, 2003, 07:34:44 PM EST
             funny non sexual non racial are fine - (boxley) - (1) - March 12, 2003, 08:58:33 PM EST
                 The problem being... - (admin) - March 12, 2003, 10:02:15 PM EST
             Re: Unprofessional, sexual or not. - (deSitter) - (2) - March 12, 2003, 09:55:59 PM EST
                 There be a syntax error. - (admin) - (1) - March 12, 2003, 10:01:38 PM EST
                     funny - I did think about that - (deSitter) - March 12, 2003, 10:35:24 PM EST
         Try this one on for size... - (Yendor) - (2) - March 12, 2003, 08:47:54 PM EST
             Did she have a sense of anything else? -NT - (deSitter) - March 12, 2003, 10:00:10 PM EST
             Howdyou pronounce that? -NT - (tseliot) - March 13, 2003, 01:03:42 AM EST
         Happened to me a few times - (orion) - March 14, 2003, 05:33:20 PM EST
         Where's Meekat? :-) - (static) - (2) - March 16, 2003, 11:56:54 PM EST
             Thought I'd related that tale too many times already. - (Meerkat) - (1) - March 18, 2003, 03:16:31 AM EST
                 Perhaps. - (static) - March 19, 2003, 09:48:54 PM EST
         Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny? - (rickw) - (1) - July 9, 2003, 07:09:01 PM EDT
             ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk) - July 10, 2003, 10:05:15 AM EDT
         Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny? - (deSitter) - July 9, 2003, 10:56:31 PM EDT
         Because it IS often actually pretty damn funny, perhaps...? - (CRConrad) - July 10, 2003, 07:49:46 AM EDT

Well, from then on, we had a whale of a time. I took her to dinner, I took her to dance. I bought her a bouquet of flounders. And then I went home with her. And what did I get for my trouble? A case of the clams.
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