• TANSTAAFL (unregistered) in reply to Pollo Frito
    Pollo Frito:
    da Doctah:
    RichP:
    Great. Now I need to learn to play guitar so that I can found a band and name it DROP TABLE.

    Old gag, new twist? Back in the 70s I decided the best name for a band would be "Many, Many More". That way they'd be forced by truth-in-advertising laws to include at least one of your songs on every K-Tel compilation album.

    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    Yes, we were that bad that we needed to trick people in to coming to see us lol

    Google "Free Hot Lunch". A real pop folk trio. The urban legend I heard is they had a lot of old folks wandering into their afternoon concert venues looking for

    (wait for it)

    a free hot lunch.

  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pollo Frito:
    da Doctah:
    RichP:
    Great. Now I need to learn to play guitar so that I can found a band and name it DROP TABLE.

    Old gag, new twist? Back in the 70s I decided the best name for a band would be "Many, Many More". That way they'd be forced by truth-in-advertising laws to include at least one of your songs on every K-Tel compilation album.

    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    Yes, we were that bad that we needed to trick people in to coming to see us lol

    Well, at least people would still likely be sober when they realized they'd been had.

    I guess "Wet T-Shirt Contest" was already taken?

  • (cs) in reply to TANSTAAFL
    TANSTAAFL:
    Pollo Frito:
    da Doctah:
    RichP:
    Great. Now I need to learn to play guitar so that I can found a band and name it DROP TABLE.

    Old gag, new twist? Back in the 70s I decided the best name for a band would be "Many, Many More". That way they'd be forced by truth-in-advertising laws to include at least one of your songs on every K-Tel compilation album.

    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    Yes, we were that bad that we needed to trick people in to coming to see us lol

    Google "Free Hot Lunch". A real pop folk trio. The urban legend I heard is they had a lot of old folks wandering into their afternoon concert venues looking for

    (wait for it)

    a free hot lunch.

    Wa Ha, TANSTAAFL! Are you from Wisconsin?

    I used to hear Free Hot Lunch all the time back in college (mid 80's). Spent a couple of weekends at their reunion concerts in Madison and Ft. Myers too!

  • (cs) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    I guess "Wet T-Shirt Contest" was already taken?

    Now if you ever want to see a group of pissed off, drunk, roudy and violent assholes, do this.

    Kieth: slurring words WOOOHOOO, wet T-SHIRT contest! YEAH! Bob: YEAH! This should be AWSOME! Keith: What the hell? There's just a bunch of douchebags on the stage... SPEAKERS: Welcome to our show. We are the "Wet T-Shirt Contest"! Keith: WTF!? Let's trash this place! Bob: I'll go take a dump on the bathroom floor!

  • (cs) in reply to TANSTAAFL
    TANSTAAFL:
    Google "Free Hot Lunch".
    That's just bad advice, any day of the week.
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    TANSTAAFL:
    Google "Free Hot Lunch".
    That's just bad advice, any day of the week.

    I can think of something worse: Google Image Search for 'goatse'

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    boog:
    TANSTAAFL:
    Google "Free Hot Lunch".
    That's just bad advice, any day of the week.

    I can think of something worse: Google Image Search for 'goatse'

    BME Pain Olympics.

  • lizardb0y (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    More successful than my friend's band "Private Function" I expect.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    You only need eight symbols to dial any galaxy, right? Shouldn't be hard to do.
  • (cs) in reply to lizardb0y
    lizardb0y:
    More successful than my friend's band "Private Function" I expect.
    It's a good film to name themselves after. Especially given the rhubarb.
  • (cs) in reply to Pollo Frito
    Pollo Frito:
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".
    I didn't come up with this, but I totally can't remember where I saw it anymore: someone once joked about naming their band "Still Here", if they could go on tour as the opener for a band named "More Crap". That way, when they were done with their set, they could yell, "thank you, we're Still Here! Stick around for More Crap!"

    Free Beer is even better, though. Incidentally, this job actually does give us free lunches. (Usually hot, except for sandwich day. And sometimes Chinese food day, when it takes too long to get here, but that's what the microwave is for.)

    Anyway, "Just a Placeholder" would be a fun band name, too.

  • Asopos (unregistered) in reply to Pollo Frito

    I tried this during my days of Quake 3 Arena (an ego-shooter). When you were about to run out of ammo, "LOW AMMO WARNING" was written on the screen. And while following someone else, his name was displayed in the same place.

    Guess, what my name was back then :)

    I probably did not help very much, but it might have prevented one or two kills...

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    You forgot dimension.
  • Vexorg (unregistered)

    George Bernard Shaw once named a play of his "Closed for Remodeling" just to spite the theater owners by wrecking their attendance (and it worked too.) The play got renamed shortly afterward.

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/closed.asp

  • BAD COMMENT (unregistered) in reply to Asopos
    Asopos:
    I tried this during my days of Quake 3 Arena (an ego-shooter). When you were about to run out of ammo, "LOW AMMO WARNING" was written on the screen. And while following someone else, his name was displayed in the same place.

    Guess, what my name was back then :)

    I probably did not help very much, but it might have prevented one or two kills...

    I do this all the time myself.

  • Pollo Frito (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Ralph:
    I guess "Wet T-Shirt Contest" was already taken?

    Now if you ever want to see a group of pissed off, drunk, roudy and violent assholes, do this.

    Kieth: slurring words WOOOHOOO, wet T-SHIRT contest! YEAH! Bob: YEAH! This should be AWSOME! Keith: What the hell? There's just a bunch of douchebags on the stage... SPEAKERS: Welcome to our show. We are the "Wet T-Shirt Contest"! Keith: WTF!? Let's trash this place! Bob: I'll go take a dump on the bathroom floor!

    lmao

  • Gary Olson (unregistered) in reply to davee123
    davee123:
    Carl:
    So what were the options in the "Please choose your universe" dropdown?

    Options listed:

    [snip] Fitness/Gym/Dance/Combat [snip]

    DaveE

    Didn't Terry Brooks write a book about that subject?

  • (cs) in reply to Vexorg
    Vexorg:
    George Bernard Shaw once named a play of his "Closed for Remodeling" just to spite the theater owners by wrecking their attendance (and it worked too.) The play got renamed shortly afterward.

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/closed.asp

    Dorothy Parker once arranged to have her office door painted with the word "MEN". She said it greatly increased the number of visitors, but they all seemed to be in a hurry.

  • (cs) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    warmachine:
    I wanna know what the choices for universes are. The light and dark universes?
    Don't pick dark, or you may turn into a rabbit.
    You'll be fine as long as you bring a nice shiny mirror or pearl.
  • D Martensson (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    Haven't you heard about the new 1024 bit zip code standard =)

    Every elemental particle will have its own :P

  • (cs)

    That Logitech installer is a WTF in general. As I discovered while installing the same driver on a whole shipment of new computers, the installer window comes up completely blank if a certain Windows update is not yet installed.

    Now I wish I'd taken a screenshot...

  • weronika (unregistered)

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  • JustSomeGuy (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    [image] What is "Hikking"? Or "Climbi"? Or "Roller Skate Ice skating"?

    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    The "Climbi" is just the 25-character cutoff limit.

  • JustSomeGuy (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    [image] What is "Hikking"? Or "Climbi"? Or "Roller Skate Ice skating"?

    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    And, given that the original "Universe" dropdown is nowhere near an address and the box consists of some store departments, that explains why this isn't a WTF at all. Decathlon's universes are just a concept to divide up areas of interest. They have a "universe" for weightlifters, another for swimmers, another for golfers, and so on.

  • iMalc (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    Yeah even a Galactic Positioning System (GPS) coordinate wouldn't cover all that.
  • JK (unregistered)

    Haven't there been enough incidents by now related to "YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE THIS" type strings? Programmers should treat such strings the same as the notion to put coffee on top of the car. It never ends well, even... no, especially, if you then think to yourself "... but this time it will".

  • Ahto (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    One reason could be that in most editors there is no visual feedback to differentiate "spell-checked with no errors found" from "no spell-checking available for this language".

    Thus, when a user of Japanese or Chinese version of Office sets language to "English", all the red and green squiggly underlines go away and the text looks just as if it were spelled correctly.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Coyne

    Yes. Yes they are. Zip Codes are the new UUIDs

  • Cyclops (unregistered)

    95 weeks is how long it will take to get the Death Star into orbit above your country before delivery of your table can take place.

  • PurpleDog (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe

    A friend of mine was the singer in a band called Free Beer...

  • PurpleDog (unregistered) in reply to PurpleDog
    PurpleDog:
    A friend of mine was the singer in a band called Free Beer...

    Damn, forgot the quote! :)

    Pollo Frito:

    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    Yes, we were that bad that we needed to trick people in to coming to see us lol

  • Phill (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    RichP:
    Great. Now I need to learn to play guitar so that I can found a band and name it DROP TABLE.

    Old gag, new twist? Back in the 70s I decided the best name for a band would be "Many, Many More". That way they'd be forced by truth-in-advertising laws to include at least one of your songs on every K-Tel compilation album.

    You could name the first album "Greatest Hits I".

    I've always wanted to have a band and name the first album "Greatest Hits", sadly I don't think that will ever happen!

  • Two Deep (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    five digits should be enough for anyone ... I mean five digits plus four should be enough for anyone ...

  • Jadawin (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    Obviously, they assume email and universe make a composite primary key. :)

  • (cs) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    warmachine:
    I wanna know what the choices for universes are. The light and dark universes?
    Don't pick dark, or you may turn into a rabbit.
    Of course the same may still happen if you pick "tangent".
  • Ron (unregistered)

    Here's a few more from failblog.org

    [image] [image] [image]
  • drusi (unregistered)

    And so, thanks to parking meters, failure is now worse than itself.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    They've had internet in New Jersey for years now...

    I think New Jersey shows up on the drop down list of "Alternate Universes".

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Pollo Frito
    Pollo Frito:
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    A town I lived in years ago had a bar named "My Brother's Place". I always figured they did that so some guy could go out drinking all night, then call his wife and when she asked where he was, he could honestly answer, "I'm at My Brother's Place".

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Pollo Frito:
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    A town I lived in years ago had a bar named "My Brother's Place". I always figured they did that so some guy could go out drinking all night, then call his wife and when she asked where he was, he could honestly answer, "I'm at My Brother's Place".

    I know of a similar place called "The Office".

  • Dery (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Pollo Frito:
    da Doctah:
    RichP:
    Great. Now I need to learn to play guitar so that I can found a band and name it DROP TABLE.

    Old gag, new twist? Back in the 70s I decided the best name for a band would be "Many, Many More". That way they'd be forced by truth-in-advertising laws to include at least one of your songs on every K-Tel compilation album.

    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    Yes, we were that bad that we needed to trick people in to coming to see us lol

    Well, at least people would still likely be sober when they realized they'd been had.

    Don't know whether it's true or not, but someone was explaining to me that there are literally (can I use that here) thousands of companies set up with names like "9 out of 10 nutritionists".

    People think they hear ads on TV and radio that say: '9 out of 10 nutritionists recommend <insert name of high sugar, high fat, high other additives product>'...in reality, they are hearing '"9 out of 10 nutritionists" recommend <insert name of high sugar, high fat, high other additives product>'. Pretty well indistinguishable...

  • GP (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Jay:
    Pollo Frito:
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    A town I lived in years ago had a bar named "My Brother's Place". I always figured they did that so some guy could go out drinking all night, then call his wife and when she asked where he was, he could honestly answer, "I'm at My Brother's Place".

    I know of a similar place called "The Office".

    Many college towns have a bar called "The Library"

  • Theo Saurus (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    [image] What is "Hikking"? Or "Climbi"? Or "Roller Skate Ice skating"?

    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    Probably because their spell checker is set for the language that they use naturally, and they don't know (read: too lazy) to change it to do the check. When their check flags almost every word on the page, they put it down to "Foreign Language"

  • Kempeth (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    [image] What is "Hikking"? Or "Climbi"? Or "Roller Skate Ice skating"?

    I often wonder why people--especially those who are writing in a language they don't know well--don't even use basic spell check.

    Maybe they feel they have very good English skills. Perhaps when compared with the rest of their countrymen that's even true.

    I once went through a whole project and only at the final review the other guy said: "What's a 'libary'?" headdesk

    Yesterday I tried to extract some information from a website. Among other things were dates like "January 5, 2010". After a few attempts (PHP is not my strong suit) my code was working great until it started stumbling over some dates again. So I went checking. Their wonderful page generating script had an error that replaced the month "02" with "Febuary"...

    Conclusion it's very easy to delude yourself into thinking you know a lot more about a language than you actually do. And since you're so good you certainly don't need no stinkin' spellchecker for some little texts like this...

  • AgTrier (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    It depends on the ZIP code.

    And since we all know (thanks to Star Treck) that every sentient being in the universe has given our very own solar system the coordinates 0-0-0, this part of the address can probably be omitted (or replaced by double colons)...

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Pollo Frito:
    My band-mates and I once considered the name "Free Beer". We figured a lot more people would come and see us if the bar we were playing at had a sign out front that said "Tonight - Free Beer".

    A town I lived in years ago had a bar named "My Brother's Place". I always figured they did that so some guy could go out drinking all night, then call his wife and when she asked where he was, he could honestly answer, "I'm at My Brother's Place".

    Reminds me of Ned Flanders, who actually found a doctor named Dr. Stork to deliver his children, so he could avoid lying to them when they ask where they came from.

  • Andreas (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I'm disappointed: They totally left out planetary body, solar system, local stellar cluster, galactic arm, galaxy, galactic cluster, and galactic supercluster.

    Surely they aren't they expecting Zip Code to handle all those?

    What?!? You mean there's more in this Universe than the USA?? Damn you George Washington, I've been had!!
  • blurp! (unregistered)

    95 Weeks? Maybe they have to ship from another universe...

  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to Scott

    its because spell check to someone that doesnt know the language can turn "happy smiling faces" to "hippy smelling feces"

  • Benjamin (unregistered) in reply to Pollo Frito

    Believe it or not, in Czech Republic there actually IS a band called Pivo zdarma (in Czech this means "Free beer"). http://pivozdarma.webzdarma.cz/

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