• Anonymous Pedant (unregistered)

    Whoever wrote this code should also be embarrassed that he can't spell "embarrassing"...

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous Pedant
    Anonymous Pedant:
    Whoever wrote this code should also be embarrassed that he can't spell "embarrassing"...
    Maybe he wrote it while.. emm bare assing in front of a female programmer.
  • James (unregistered)

    I thought that all problems were fixed with the simple line of

    throw 0
  • Gibbon1 (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    It certainly beats the "Oh bugger" that used to spontaneously appear at the bottom of the screen when running a program that appeared on my list of programs to maintain and upgrade a few years ago.

    When I reprogrammed it to get the error to explain itself, disappointment was raised by all the people who would never again be graced with the delights of "Oh bugger" when they fatfingered the input. Silly buggers.

    I once had a program with a status box that would spit out what it was sort of up to. At one point after a bunch of preconditions were satisfied it spit out 'Hulk Smash!'

    Uses loved that.

  • Spewin Coffee (unregistered)

    50% of all error messages are embarrassing.

  • st (unregistered) in reply to Spewin Coffee
    Spewin Coffee:
    50% of all error messages are embarrassing.

    And the rest occur when something goes awry?

  • Stefan (unregistered) in reply to Rfoxmich

    The haiku error messages made my day and actually inspired me to write some. They are not accepting submissions however, so I setup an error message haiku on my blog:

    http://noshtniptici.blogspot.de/2012/03/error-message-heiku-contest.html (UI is in Bulgarian but actual haikus are in English, and the blogspot UI in a foreign language shouldn't be a problem)

  • (cs) in reply to Rfoxmich
    Rfoxmich:
    TRWTF is that it does not meet best error message practices. It is well known that error messages should be chosen from those in http://www.funny2.com/haiku.htm
    Thanks for the stupid link. I'm tempted to use one of them, I must admit. This one.
    Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank
  • slinkhi (unregistered)

    or maybe it isn't supposed to be random. Maybe it's supposed to be a diff msg depending on the time and at the time he only had 2 msgs and decided to alternate. Maybe in the future he will have a different one for each time, and they aren't supposed to be random, but specific given time of day.

  • Darkhog (unregistered)

    The real WTF is why only two messages are here even if there's place of ten. I could make them up easily.

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