• Don L (unregistered)

    How about something like:

    Selecht Chase DataChonnection.GetDataChellValue(_
                "Dochument Marketing", DataChonnection.ChurrentBlockID, _
                "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)
   Dim ThirdParameter As String
   Chase "No", "NO", "no"
     ThirdParameter = "3"
   Chase "Chontinue", "CHONTINUE", "chontinue"
     ThirdParameter = "1"
   Chase "Chancel", "CHANCEL", "chancel"
     ThirdParameter = "2"
   Chase Else
     ThirdParameter = "OhMy!"
End Selecht
If ThirdParameter <> "OhMy!" Then Chonnector.Chonnection.PressItem("0", 2, ThirdParameter, 0)
  • Childish (unregistered) in reply to iToad
    iToad:
    This really turns the clock back for me. All the way back to 1966. Back to the days of my first bug. I remember it well. I proudly submitted my first Fortran program (on punched cards) to the UNIVAC-1108 operator, and discovered much to my surprise that 'PROCEDURE' is not spelled with two 'E's.

    I have made many errors and generated many bugs since then, but I will always remember the first one. It has a special place in my heart.

    That's a real WTF since FORTRAN used the reserved words SUBROUTINE and FUNCTION, not PROCEDURE.

  • (cs) in reply to Don L
    Don L:
    How about something like: 
    Selecht Chase DataChonnection.GetDataChellValue(_
                "Dochument Marketing", DataChonnection.ChurrentBlockID, _
                "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)
   Dim ThirdParameter As String
   Chase "No", "NO", "no"
     ThirdParameter = "3"
   Chase "Chontinue", "CHONTINUE", "chontinue"
     ThirdParameter = "1"
   Chase "Chancel", "CHANCEL", "chancel"
     ThirdParameter = "2"
   Chase Else
     ThirdParameter = "OhMy!"
End Selecht
If ThirdParameter <> "OhMy!" Then Chonnector.Chonnection.PressItem("0", 2, ThirdParameter, 0)
    .

    I'm pretty sure this compiles if you declare Option Spelling Off.

  • (cs)

    Alex, good work with clean activety.

  • Ozone (unregistered)

    A VB GUI? Can it trace IPs?

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Ozone
    Ozone:
    A VB GUI? Can it trace IPs?

    Not everything you see in a CSI show is real!

  • (cs) in reply to Auge
    Auge:
    CurtCharlesPDX:
    Reminds me of a conversation in Japan where the engineer kept telling me about the crutch. Took me a good 15 minutes before I realized he meant clutch.
    I used to think it was an accent when they said "crap their hands." I'm never eating at another Chinese restaurant as long as I live.

    "Waiter! Waiter! This chicken is rubbery!"

    "Ah so, I am grad you rike it."

  • A-nony-Mouse (unregistered)

    I posted a comment (a rather witty one)...I saw it there...and not it is gone.

    Why is it someone is always messing with the Mouse's Cheese???

  • AndrewH (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that this isn't TRWTF. TRWTF is the code that generates the form that this is testing. Not to mention - a typo? That's "worse than failure" now?

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus

    It's not called Visual BEGINNER'S All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code for nothing you know.

  • Mugatu (unregistered)

    That Chancel is so hot right now!

  • guru (unregistered) in reply to Lockwood

    George: So uh... Wrath of Khan, huh? Jerry: Yeah. Was that a beauty or what? George: What was that line again? Something about finding your way in a shadow? Jerry: No, no, no, it's... "She's not really dead if we find a way to remember her." George: That's it. That's the line... (squirts mustard into Jerry's coffee and stirs it) ...that destroyed my life. George: Don't you see? I'm back in. Jerry: All because of Wrath of Khan? George: Yes! Jerry: Well, it was the best of those movies. [The camera is over George's head and spins around repeatedly as George screams.] George: KHAN!

    Captcha - ludus. Looks like they've been watching too much Spartacus

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Don L:
    How about something like: 
    Selecht Chase DataChonnection.GetDataChellValue(_
                "Dochument Marketing", DataChonnection.ChurrentBlockID, _
                "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)
   Dim ThirdParameter As String
   Chase "No", "NO", "no"
     ThirdParameter = "3"
   Chase "Chontinue", "CHONTINUE", "chontinue"
     ThirdParameter = "1"
   Chase "Chancel", "CHANCEL", "chancel"
     ThirdParameter = "2"
   Chase Else
     ThirdParameter = "OhMy!"
End Selecht
If ThirdParameter <> "OhMy!" Then Chonnector.Chonnection.PressItem("0", 2, ThirdParameter, 0)
    .

    I'm pretty sure this compiles if you declare Option Spelling Off.

    Good one!
  • grammarian (unregistered) 
    Select Case UCase(DataConnection.GetDataCellValue(_

    .

  • (cs) in reply to iToad
    iToad:
    discovered much to my surprise that 'PROCEDURE' is not spelled with two 'E's.
    PROCEDURE is spelled with two Es. They're just not together.
  • Gibbon1 (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Yawn. I expect this shit from VB.

    I have a feeling that it is the class of problems VB is tasked with that produces code like this.

  • Khootrapali (unregistered) in reply to Childish
    Childish:
    iToad:
    This really turns the clock back for me. All the way back to 1966. Back to the days of my first bug. I remember it well. I proudly submitted my first Fortran program (on punched cards) to the UNIVAC-1108 operator, and discovered much to my surprise that 'PROCEDURE' is not spelled with two 'E's.

    I have made many errors and generated many bugs since then, but I will always remember the first one. It has a special place in my heart.

    That's a real WTF since FORTRAN used the reserved words SUBROUTINE and FUNCTION, not PROCEDURE.

    You missed the rest of the troll - PROCEDURE is spelled with two 'E's.

    CHAPTCHA - vereor: not as very as veriest.

  • (cs) in reply to Welcome to English
    Welcome to English:
    Learn it, love it, laugh at others who do not no how to right it.
    FTFY.
  • Grey (unregistered)

    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to CurtCharlesPDX
    CurtCharlesPDX:
    Reminds me of a conversation in Japan where the engineer kept telling me about the crutch.

    I think I'd have got that one on the spot (having a bit of experience at this game). The one that threw me was the salesman complaining that his client couldn't find our website on yafu.

    Me: I see. And what is he doing looking for it there?

    (This was about 1998, and I don't think I'd heard the term "SEO".)

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.

    BZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzztttTTTT!

    Thank you for playing! Our next contestant, please!

  • QJ (unregistered) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.

    Honk, hoot, klaxon, blatt

    Stephen Fry: "Ooohhhh dear! Minus ten points to Alan Davies!"

    Captcha: "letatio": with the way this thread is going, looks like what you might pay for in a Japanese cat-house.

  • Jesper (unregistered)

    I pressed the "nO" button and now I can't cHaNcEl it. What do I do now?

  • (cs)

    Isn't the other WTF that if we saw the end result of this, it'd be a picture of a typo in Error'd, and we'd yawn and move on?

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.
    You could have picked a better example, such as "election".

    [QI]In English, /l/ and /r/ are two distinct sounds. Japanese does not have these sounds - rather it has /ɺ̺/, which sounds to the untrained English ear as being between the two. Occasionally, some Japanese speakers throw in /ɾ/ for good measure.[/QI]

  • Dr.No (unregistered)

    I am with the ones that state that the real WTF was working it again for it. The customer got what he paid for / accepted from the contractor, two junior programmers with no experience in the technology they were using. He got lucky and got an usable product, yet inefficient.

    If the customer had asked for a fix or complained (or even just made a comment that it would better if it was faster), then being nice would mean accepting a lower rate (and not really needed, because now they got an experienced programmer at experienced programmer rates).

    I think that not being able to stand that "sometime several years ago I made a mistake" more like a symptom of Obsesive Compulsive Disease than anything else.

  • Grey (unregistered)

    Yes/no/cancel is retarded. In 3rd millenium it must be yes/no/who_cares.

  • (cs) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Um, it's pronounced khan' səl.
    "Khaaaaaaaaan!
  • M (unregistered) in reply to kktkkr
    kktkkr:
    (my chaptcha is acsi too!)

    ITYM achsi

  • M (unregistered) in reply to Don L
    Don L:
    How about something like: 
    Selecht Chase DataChonnection.GetDataChellValue(_
                "Dochument Marketing", DataChonnection.ChurrentBlockID, _
                "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)

    ITYM ChlickButton

  • hoodaticus (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Alex, good work with clean activety.
    Yes, he also deleted my account as I requested.
  • No'am (unregistered) in reply to iToad

    There are two 'e's in 'procedure'. I think that you meant three 'e's.

  • (cs) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.
    Since when is the 'r' pronounced in cancer?
  • Wonk (unregistered) in reply to No'am

    THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

  • Jules (unregistered)

    "No", "NO", "no"!

  • (cs)

    Somehow that gave me a "Singing in the Rain"-moment. "No, no, no" "Yes, yes, yes"

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered)

    I can has new WTF please?

  • Design Pattern (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Alex, good work with clean activety.
    Here it's called chensorship.

    And this has a good chance to become a 4channer-ship!

    CHAPTCHA: chommoveo - well, almost!

  • (cs) in reply to Mugatu
    Mugatu:
    That Chancel is so hot right now!
    Derek, I'd like you to meet Katinka Inga Gobovi Na Na.
  • gilleain (unregistered) in reply to bitterman0
    bitterman0:
    "Chancel" nothing. My favorite so far is "Do you shure?" (where "Are you sure?" prompt was appropriate).
    Perhaps programs could be "accent-skinnable", like how you can get different voices for Sat-Navs. So you could have a "Sean Connery" skin for the text, so that buttons say "Are you quite shure about that?" and "I'm afraid there hash been an error, old boy".

    Hmm. Can't quite render that accent in text...

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to gilleain
    gilleain:
    bitterman0:
    "Chancel" nothing. My favorite so far is "Do you shure?" (where "Are you sure?" prompt was appropriate).
    Perhaps programs could be "accent-skinnable", like how you can get different voices for Sat-Navs. So you could have a "Sean Connery" skin for the text, so that buttons say "Are you quite shure about that?" and "I'm afraid there hash been an error, old boy".

    Hmm. Can't quite render that accent in text...

    Enough to make me laugh...

  • Alex Trebek (unregistered) in reply to gilleain
    gilleain:
    bitterman0:
    "Chancel" nothing. My favorite so far is "Do you shure?" (where "Are you sure?" prompt was appropriate).
    Perhaps programs could be "accent-skinnable", like how you can get different voices for Sat-Navs. So you could have a "Sean Connery" skin for the text, so that buttons say "Are you quite shure about that?" and "I'm afraid there hash been an error, old boy".

    Hmm. Can't quite render that accent in text...

    Then we'll get the SNL Sean Connery skin that finds all the sex related combinations of letters in the text and misspell them on purpose.

    Unable to load the icon dom document? Or unable to load the I Condom Document?

  • (cs)

    The fool, he didn't check for "nO"

    also, is chancel a combination of "cancel" and "chance", and if I do it, will I get a random action, I think I like this game

  • nerfer (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    yo:
    Nagesh:
    I am not expert in VB, but I do not see problem here.

    And that's why outsourced code sucks.

    That's why your martyrchord. My company score many contracs outperforming your silly games.

    I would hope that you're doing this on purpose, but it scares me that I suspect you are not. Just in case you're interested Nagesh, every single comment you have posted for this WTF has had at least one grammatical or spelling error. This one is among the worst; here, let me fix it for you:

    That's why you're martyrchord. My company scores many contracts that outperform your silly games.
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".
  • (cs) in reply to nerfer
    nerfer:
    Nagesh:
    yo:
    Nagesh:
    I am not expert in VB, but I do not see problem here.

    And that's why outsourced code sucks.

    That's why your martyrchord. My company score many contracs outperforming your silly games.

    I would hope that you're doing this on purpose, but it scares me that I suspect you are not. Just in case you're interested Nagesh, every single comment you have posted for this WTF has had at least one grammatical or spelling error. This one is among the worst; here, let me fix it for you:

    That's why you're martyrchord. My company scores many contracts that outperform your silly games.
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".

    Just to be a party-pooper, in case anyone hasn't figured it, it's supposed to be a humorous on-topic alternative to one of the many Nageshes's favourite insult meaning someone who indulges in an incestuous relationship with a close female ancestor.

    I did some research. GIMF.

  • Hindi (unregistered) in reply to nerfer
    nerfer:
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".
    Here "martyrchord" is an intentional misspelling of a common Hindi swear/curse word:

    madarchod

    If you watch Slumdog Millionaire, you can hear the cop use this word, but you won't see any translation for it in the English subtitles.

  • Jebediah (unregistered) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Yes/no/cancel is retarded. In 3rd millenium it must be yes/no/who_cares.

    Or Auto-Correct/Ignore/Go Back....

    The only time I've even considered using 3 options is when there appears to be a mistake that can easily be corrected.... "Do you want me to change Chancel to Cancel?" Yes (Correct or Continue) = Go for your life No (ignore, user knows better) = I might have f*ed up, but I really don't care, so continue, goddamnit Cancel (Go Back and fix it yourself) = OOPS, you're right I'd better go back and redo that

  • iToad (unregistered) in reply to Khootrapali
    Khootrapali:
    Childish:
    iToad:
    This really turns the clock back for me. All the way back to 1966. Back to the days of my first bug. I remember it well. I proudly submitted my first Fortran program (on punched cards) to the UNIVAC-1108 operator, and discovered much to my surprise that 'PROCEDURE' is not spelled with two 'E's.

    I have made many errors and generated many bugs since then, but I will always remember the first one. It has a special place in my heart.

    That's a real WTF since FORTRAN used the reserved words SUBROUTINE and FUNCTION, not PROCEDURE.

    You missed the rest of the troll - PROCEDURE is spelled with two 'E's.

    CHAPTCHA - vereor: not as very as veriest.

    Actually, the language was a Fortran-like substance called IITRAN. The very first card was PROCEDURE <program name>. The other cards were sort of Fortran II (not Fortran IV). And, as has been pointed out, PROCEDURE is spelled with two 'E's. They're just not together.

    By the way, I still have a drum card for an IBM 029 keypunch, for formatting your Fortran cards. Does anybody still need one?

  • anon (unregistered)

    Aisle bet that code was written by a nave. Easy to altar though.

  • alnite (unregistered)

    Show Next TDWTF?

    [NO] [CONTINUE] [CHANCEL]

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