• FireJayPa (unregistered)

    None of the above?

    Wow, this sounds like a girl I really want to meet

  • Siloria (unregistered)

    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

  • (cs) in reply to Siloria
    Alert: Something happened

    Brevity. Good.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    Wait, I have a TIME LIMIT to parse the message, decipher its meaning, and then choose between six buttons?

  • wtf (unregistered)

    haha if your a female you may have lips else where...

  • Sandy (unregistered)

    The better question would be:

    Q: What orientation are the lips experiencing blue coloring?

    [] Horizontal [] Vertical

  • Jeff (unregistered)

    At the University of Michigan I once saw a body painted runner with just that problem.

    Go Blue!

  • (cs)
    index.cfm has changed on the testing server (8/10/07 7:11 AM) since your last get or put operation (10/28/1601 10:04 AM)
    Yeah, maintenance on that website has really been lacking since Tycho Brahe died.
  • (cs)

    if you had blue vertical lips, you might be a couple months pregnant :)

  • Link (unregistered)

    Smurfette, perhaps?

  • (cs) in reply to Siloria
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

    More importantly, whose epoch started then?

  • (cs)

    The Dreamweaver guy was probably interrupted by the Siege of Kinsale.

  • Troy Mclure (unregistered) in reply to bkendig

    Are blue lips the female equivalent of blue balls for men?

    I admit that one made me chuckle when I first read it.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Something happened, but you wouldn't even understand if it was a bad thing or a good thing, let alone what the consequences of the said thing are anyway. So just click the Okay button moron.

  • (cs) in reply to Carnildo
    Carnildo:
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

    More importantly, whose epoch started then?

    1/1/1601 is the epoch start for Windows file timestamps, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601

  • a/c (unregistered) in reply to Carnildo
    Carnildo:
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?
    More importantly, whose epoch started then?
    According to Wikipedia, the Windows file system epoch is January 1, 1601.
  • LT (unregistered)

    Interestingly, if you follow through with "none of the above" on the blue lips question, you end up with whooping cough. That would be especially interesting if vertical Orientation...

    WTF?!

  • (cs) in reply to Sandy
    Sandy:
    The better question would be:

    Q: What orientation are the lips experiencing blue coloring?

    [] Horizontal [] Vertical

    According to Urban Dictionary, those choices could still lead to ambiguity.

  • (cs)

    [ ] Mouth [*] While doin' weird things with a smurfette puppet, go figure !

  • Stinky McPooty (unregistered) in reply to LT
    LT:
    Interestingly, if you follow through with "none of the above" on the blue lips question, you end up with whooping cough. That would be especially interesting if vertical Orientation...

    WTF?!

    Would be more accurate to explain that you just blew Papa Smurf?

  • chris (unregistered)

    The 'Something happened' seems like a debug dialog that was accidentally left in (sort of like a printf). Pretty funny though.

  • Sarah (unregistered)

    Blue colored lips shouldn't worry you immature little pervs as much as the other symptoms listed on the left. When and if you finally do stumble across a girl dumb enough to sleep with you be sure to watch out for signs of "Drainage and Puss" and "Itching and Burning." One or the other is guaranteed to be there.

  • Freddy Bob (unregistered) in reply to wtf
    wtf:
    haha if your a female you may have lips else where...
    "May"? "May have lips elsewhere!?! You've been walking into the wrong circus tents, young man.
  • (cs)

    Apparently 1601 had at least 28 months in it.

  • Deron Meranda (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    I experienced one of these timed dialogs once in Windows, but I only had one button (OK)! I certainly couldn't decipher the whole technogarble message in the time given (especially since I use Linux 98% of the time), but it sounded really scary and destructive threatening that something would be deleted, and I didn't even have a choice between a blue wire and a red one. So I had to hastily choose the "other" button....the power button. I think I had three seconds left on the countdown; whew!

    Really, timed dialogs are a bad idea. But if they have to exist, they should at least have a working PAUSE button very obviously displayed!

  • Anon Fred (unregistered) in reply to swordfishBob
    swordfishBob:
    Apparently 1601 had at least 28 months in it.

    Quiet, Frenchy!!

  • Some Random Kougra Owner (unregistered)
    Alert: Something happened.

    This error message brought to you by Neopets.com.

    (Well, not exactly. Their in-game alerts are "Something has happened," but it was the first thing I thought of.)

  • Erock (unregistered) in reply to Link

    Smurfing smurf! I have blue lips on my smurf!

    CAPTCHA: Tesla - "Love will find a way~..."

  • Harrow (unregistered)

    On the rare occasion when I have experienced blue lips elsewhere on my body I was able to palliate the condition by allowing the poor girl to take a few breaths before continuing.

    -Harrow.

  • (cs)

    Since the form is a checkbox, apparently you can check both answers. That's proper for girls and Smurfette/Draenei lovers.

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Some Random Kougra Owner
    Some Random Kougra Owner:
    Alert: Something happened.

    This error message brought to you by Neopets.com.

    (Well, not exactly. Their in-game alerts are "Something has happened," but it was the first thing I thought of.)

    (Submitter here)

    Alert: Something Happened came from Final Cut Pro on OS X. It completely crashed, leaving only that dialog.

  • (cs) in reply to Deron Meranda
    Deron Meranda:
    Really, timed dialogs are a bad idea. But if they have to exist, they should at least have a working PAUSE button very obviously displayed!
    For sure. And the countdown really really doesn't belong in the title bar, where it's easy to overlook.

    I get why they have a countdown, though: it's part of an operation involving multiple files. If you were "putting" 300 files, you might want to leave the room while that's going on. Better to fall through after 30 seconds, than to have the user come back after an hour only to discover that only two files were "put" and there's a dialog awaiting confirmation for the remaining 298... but there damn well better be some kind of error report at the end, so the user knows one or more error dialogs timed out.

  • jimi (unregistered) in reply to Licky Lindsay
    Licky Lindsay:
    Carnildo:
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

    More importantly, whose epoch started then?

    1/1/1601 is the epoch start for Windows file timestamps, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601

    Well duh, 1600 would have been a leap-century, which MS has had issues dealing with in the past...
  • Zygo (unregistered)

    OK, I've never seen one of those before. Now that I have, I'm thinking it's one of the top ten stupidest things I've ever seen anyone program a computer to do.

    WTF happens in 27 seconds? If it's anything other than "the developer is shot in public" then I'll be very disappointed.

    You could even say I won't have a smile on my face.

  • tomhath (unregistered) in reply to Siloria
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on October 28th 1601?!?

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  • J. Davis (unregistered) in reply to Deron Meranda

    As for the 'sideways' thing, maybe you should get some experience instead of relying on UrbanDictionary all day.

    CAPTCHA: ewww

  • Flea done but fly undone (unregistered)

    "I can't find [censored]"

    "Look for blue lips"

  • Caped Bob (unregistered) in reply to Licky Lindsay
    Licky Lindsay:
    Carnildo:
    Siloria:
    Where were you at 10:04AM on Octover 28th 1601?!?

    More importantly, whose epoch started then?

    1/1/1601 is the epoch start for Windows file timestamps, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601

    Apparently, that's about the same time you lost your sense of humour Captain Obvious :)

  • me (unregistered) in reply to VGR

    Better yet, shift that file to the end of the list (flagging it if possible) and move on to the next one. If you flag failed files than the program can save wasting time.

  • (cs)

    Is it OK to spell OK as Okay, or is it more Okay to spell Okay as OK?

  • seamus (unregistered)

    If the symptom of "excessive body hair growth" doesn't lead to a diagnosis of "Werewolfism", I'll be very disappointed.

  • Nutter (unregistered) in reply to Sarah

    "zomg lolz i bet u geeks hav nevr got laid lolz!!!!111"

    Once you grow out of your teenage high school gangs and join the real world, you might realise what an utterly cliched and lame attempt at a put-down that actually is.

  • (cs) in reply to Sarah
    Sarah:
    ... lips ...

    http://xkcd.com/150/

  • George Nacht (unregistered) in reply to seamus
    seamus:
    If the symptom of "excessive body hair growth" doesn't lead to a diagnosis of "Werewolfism", I'll be very disappointed.

    Is Werewolfism a word? Didn´t you meant ,,lycantrophy"?

    OK, neither is expected to really happen...

  • FireJayPa (unregistered) in reply to Sarah

    Way to try & burn the software engineers and IT guys with a "you don't get any" jab.

    I found many women 'dumb enough' to sleep with me -- it was called the college bar scene.

    QED!

    CAPTCHA: muhahahhaha

  • Beefy Paws (unregistered) in reply to swordfishBob
    swordfishBob:
    Apparently 1601 had at least 28 months in it.

    On this side of the pond, the format is usually MM/DD/YY, so it's october 28th

  • Global Warmer (unregistered) in reply to Jeff
    Jeff:
    At the University of Michigan I once saw a body painted runner with just that problem.

    Go Blue!

    Jeff... You're a UofM fan?

    Cool! State Sucks!!!!

    GO BLUE!!!!!!!!

  • Sarah (unregistered) in reply to FireJayPa
    FireJayPa:
    Way to try & burn the software engineers and IT guys with a "you don't get any" jab.

    I found many women 'dumb enough' to sleep with me -- it was called the college bar scene.

    I see you're not disputing the rest of my comment. How many rounds of penicillin did you require?

    Captcha: ewww ( how appropriate )

  • Sarah (unregistered) in reply to Nutter
    Nutter:
    "zomg lolz i bet u geeks hav nevr got laid lolz!!!!111"

    Once you grow out of your teenage high school gangs and join the real world, you might realise what an utterly cliched and lame attempt at a put-down that actually is.

    Yeah, I see where you're coming from and you're correct. It's lame because the guys making all the "verticle" jokes are mature responsible men living in the real world where they're spending their free time getting laid rather than cracking immature "verticle" jokes? Oh, wait, but they are cracking immature "verticle" jokes so I guess they are immature little geeks. I guess the put-down is more spot on than it is lame.

    P.S. You protest too much. Strike home?

  • (cs) in reply to Sarah

    If you follow the 'where are your lips' symptom checker, it goes on to ask you if the blueness is made worse by 'coughing or sneezing', then (question 3 of 3), err, whether it's associated with 'eating contaminated fish'. I couldn't possibly comment further.

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