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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.

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.
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)
         Unprofessional, sexual or not. - (admin) - (5)
             funny non sexual non racial are fine - (boxley) - (1)
                 The problem being... - (admin)
             Re: Unprofessional, sexual or not. - (deSitter) - (2)
                 There be a syntax error. - (admin) - (1)
                     funny - I did think about that - (deSitter)
         Try this one on for size... - (Yendor) - (2)
             Did she have a sense of anything else? -NT - (deSitter)
             Howdyou pronounce that? -NT - (tseliot)
         Happened to me a few times - (orion)
         Where's Meekat? :-) - (static) - (2)
             Thought I'd related that tale too many times already. - (Meerkat) - (1)
                 Perhaps. - (static)
         Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny? - (rickw) - (1)
             ICLRPD (new thread) - (drewk)
         Re: Why do bosses think that sexual humor is funny? - (deSitter)
         Because it IS often actually pretty damn funny, perhaps...? - (CRConrad)

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