• Spastic Weasel (unregistered)

    10 bucks says someone named Cecil is gonna whine like a little bitch

  • Stephen (unregistered)

    I Am Error

  • Somebody (unregistered)

    Looks like from the same developers who made choclate covered sql.

    http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-Chocolate-Covered-SQL-.aspx

  • dkf (unregistered) in reply to Stephen
    Stephen:
    I Am Error
    Is that "Stephen Error" or "Error Stephen"?
  • (cs) in reply to Stephen
    Stephen:
    I Am Error
    [image]
  • An Unhandled Exception Was Thrown (unregistered)

    Still, Failed to convert to string from variant type 1 is prob'ly proud to see his $49.95 hard at work building the future of gaming.

  • wiregoat (unregistered)

    last

  • null (unregistered) in reply to wiregoat

    I once received an email from espn.com that started "Dear null,"

  • (cs)

    "Cecil" is the 10th on my list of least desired alternate names, followed by nnumber 9, "Failed to convert to string from variant type 1"

    who wants to be associated with the equally unsuccessful brother of Sideshow Bob?

  • (cs)

    Ha! I get every single Daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me calling me: `null null'.

    Hm... sounds kinda like a dodgy low budget version of the Matrix: "It is inevitable Mr. Error." "My name... is.. Failed to convert to string from variant type 1"

    :D

  • (cs)

    I am become Failed to convert to string from variant type 1, the destroyer of worlds.

  • dolo54 (unregistered)

    Cecil - that's nothing. My dad said he wanted to name me Clancy, but all his friends and my mom told him that I would hate him forever if he named me that. I told him that his friends were right.

  • Anony-Moose (unregistered) in reply to Pap
    Pap:
    Stephen:
    I Am Error

    [image]

    Ahhhh...the good ole days...thanx for that one.

  • null reference (unregistered)

    His names is only wrong because M$ put in a special condition for people using Gmail instead of Hotmail.

  • (cs)

    In soviet russia, strings of variant type 1 fail to convert you.

  • James (unregistered) in reply to Pap

    DAMMIT somebody beat me to it...

  • digdug (unregistered) in reply to dolo54
    dolo54:
    Cecil - that's nothing. My dad said he wanted to name me Clancy, but all his friends and my mom told him that I would hate him forever if he named me that. I told him that his friends were right.
    But your mother was wrong?
  • Jno (unregistered)

    I notice that it congratulates Err (we're old mates, he doesn't mind that I call him Err) on renewing his membership, and then goes on to describe the benefits to a new member. WTF?

  • Matelot (unregistered)

    why is this company so capable of making bad software, of making mistakes ?????

  • fcardenas (unregistered)

    Bastard InvalidClassCastException Gates!!

  • (cs) in reply to Matelot
    Matelot:
    why is this company so capable of making bad software, of making mistakes ?????
    You know what they say, find something you are good at and keep doing it.
  • (cs) in reply to Control_Alt_Kaboom
    Control_Alt_Kaboom:
    Ha! I get every single Daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me calling me: `null null'.
    Same here. I wonder how many e-mails they've gotten about that one.
  • O';DROP DATABASE; (unregistered)

    That's nothing, loads of companies fail to spell my name correctly for some reason.

  • (cs) in reply to Saladin
    Saladin:
    Control_Alt_Kaboom:
    Ha! I get every single Daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me calling me: `null null'.
    Same here. I wonder how many e-mails they've gotten about that one.
    Well, when all the emails come from [email protected], it probably ends up in a spam filter.
  • (cs) in reply to Saladin
    Saladin:
    Control_Alt_Kaboom:
    Ha! I get every single Daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me calling me: `null null'.
    Same here. I wonder how many e-mails they've gotten about that one.
    Considering this is Dilbert we are talking about, this might be intentional.
  • Duston (unregistered)

    We were going to name our daughter "An Unspecified Error Has Occurred" but decided to go with "Sarah" instead. I think we chose wisely on that one.

  • Not Ursula (unregistered)

    My parents told me that had I been female, my name would have been Ursula. At least it wasn't going to be Slashbot or something.

    Another one I heard was a group of people were talking in a restaurant about some race, and the ethnicity of the winner was in question - his name was Fnu Lnu.

    After loudly discussing the strange naming conventions of foreign locales at length, another patron informed them that Mr. Fnu Lnu was not, in fact, from Africa, but rather was First Name Unknown, Last Name Unknown.

  • whicker (unregistered)

    How do we know the username wasn't some crap string spelled out in ܆ƒ⅛ Ļ℮℮╦ Ѕр34Қ

  • Pragma (unregistered) in reply to O';DROP DATABASE;

    I see what you did there. :)

  • (cs) in reply to whicker
    whicker:
    How do we know the username wasn't some crap string spelled out in ܆ƒ⅛ Ļ℮℮╦ Ѕр34Қ

    And those who are truly leet understand that this is not really leet speak. Remember it was spawned by gamers where only the left hand was over the keyboard so word spellings were modified to only use the left half of the keyboard. The right hand was on the arrow keys so could not be used for communications as you didn't want to stand still just to type something.

  • (cs)

    Failed to convert to string from variant type 1? That's my name too! Whenever I go out The people always shout There goes Failed to convert to string from variant type 1! La la la la la la la

  • (cs) in reply to null reference
    null reference:
    His names is only wrong because M$ put in a special condition for people using Gmail instead of Hotmail.

    You're using Perl and have a variable called M? The variable can't handle Gmail? Wha?

  • Tchakkazulu (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    null reference:
    His names is only wrong because M$ put in a special condition for people using Gmail instead of Hotmail.

    You're using Perl and have a variable called M? The variable can't handle Gmail? Wha?

    Well, duh, the variable should be called $M.

  • (cs) in reply to Spastic Weasel
    Spastic Weasel:
    10 bucks says someone named Cecil is gonna whine like a little bitch

    Let's hope none of our disabled readers are named Cecil. Alex's story and now this one would be like a swift kick in each nad, respectively.

  • (cs) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    Saladin:
    Control_Alt_Kaboom:
    Ha! I get every single Daily Dilbert cartoon sent to me calling me: `null null'.
    Same here. I wonder how many e-mails they've gotten about that one.
    Considering this is Dilbert we are talking about, this might be intentional.

    dilbert knows who i am. maybe if certain people weren't so cagey with their personal details they might be enjoying the personal touch? ;)

    <namedrop>that said, scott adams sent me an email once, so maybe i'm part of some special "you're not just a null" club :)</namedrop>

  • (cs) in reply to Pap
    Pap:
    Stephen:
    I Am Error

    [image]

    I always thought the Zelda 2 developers just liked esoteric names, and that it wasn't, in fact, a bug.

  • (cs)

    How many times have we all received SPAM email messages addresed as: %first% %last% ?

  • (cs) in reply to chrismcb
    chrismcb:
    null reference:
    His names is only wrong because M$ put in a special condition for people using Gmail instead of Hotmail.

    You're using Perl and have a variable called M? The variable can't handle Gmail? Wha?

    Don't you recognize the syntax? That's a perfectly valid name for a string variable in BASIC.

  • theteapot (unregistered)

    Hey - what is this? The wooden table of email? Taking a screenshot of an email client?

  • Cecil (unregistered) in reply to savar
    savar:
    Spastic Weasel:
    10 bucks says someone named Cecil is gonna whine like a little bitch

    Let's hope none of our disabled readers are named Cecil. Alex's story and now this one would be like a swift kick in each nad, respectively.

    I have 3.

  • Zelda Fan (unregistered) in reply to Pap

    I loved the old Zelda 2 messages. Someone should make a book named "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Zelda."

    Although, I suppose that people might get disturbed if you added other Zelda quotes to that like "If all else fails use fire."

    ...

  • (cs) in reply to Duston
    Duston:
    We were going to name our daughter "An Unspecified Error Has Occurred" but decided to go with "Sarah" instead. I think we chose wisely on that one.
    Nothing unspecified about that particular error.
  • Old Wolf (unregistered) in reply to null
    null:
    I once received an email from espn.com that started "Dear null,"
    I often get emails starting: "Dear Old,"
  • Old Wolf (unregistered) in reply to KattMan
    And those who are truly leet understand that this is not really leet speak. Remember it was spawned by gamers where only the left hand was over the keyboard so word spellings were modified to only use the left half of the keyboard. The right hand was on the arrow keys so could not be used for communications as you didn't want to stand still just to type something.
    So how did 'T' (left) get changed to '7' (right) ? Is this just an urban legend?
  • Error (unregistered) in reply to Stephen

    No, I'm Spart^W Error!

  • digdug (unregistered)

    Oh well, since nobody has mentioned it yet:

    A "variant of type 1" is a VT_NULL, which means that this message is basically the same as "Dear (null)".

  • Magnus (unregistered) in reply to O';DROP DATABASE;
    O';DROP DATABASE;:
    That's nothing, loads of companies fail to spell my name correctly for some reason.

    And I guess that you never hear from them again? Strange.

  • Failed to convert to string from variant type 1 (unregistered)

    The name's to convert to string from variant type 1, Failed to convert to string from variant type 1.

  • a person (unregistered)

    I was quite offended once when an automated email to me started with "Dear fuck face"

    Took me a few seconds to realize i supplied fake details :P

  • JamesC (unregistered)

    I've done worse. Much worse.

    We had to rationalise our customer hierarchy. Being a government agency, we realised we could organise all our clients into a single tree, with a single root. That way, if we didn't have details for some customer, we could go up the tree until we found the attribute we needed. Of course, we needed a dummy record at the top of the tree to act as the single root.

    And all was well, until the day we sent out thousands of letters headed "Dear Dummy Customer". If only we'd called the root record "Valued Customer" instead.

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