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Subject:Re: CHAT: More Great Moments in Error Messages From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Feb 1998 20:55:28 -0500
I once came across a program that asked users who closed it, "Sure to
exit?"
The same program also had a contact window with a "View Marriage
Breakdown" tag (I kept expecting video clips) and a tab to record death
details that had multiple table rows...
All of which reminds me of my favorites from student essays when I was
an academic:
--"There is a low birth rate among the new born."
--"With advances in DNA research, you will seen be able to choose your
own genealogy."
--"For centuries, women have been depressed by men" (female friends tell
me that this isn't a typo).
--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
(bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com) (604) 421-7189 or 687-2133 X. 269
www.outlawcommunications.com (redesigned and updated 07 Feb 1998)
"So in the spring of the year, we took the fleet,
Every cask and cannon and compass sheet,
And we flew a Jacobean flag to give us heart;
While Pitt stood helpless we were waiting for Bonaparte."
--The Men They Couldn't Hang, "The Colors"
