• Tom (unregistered)

    last 6142 years

    That's how old the earth is, right?

  • AT (unregistered)

    Hey, no fair! I submitted that same SAP error dialog about 4 months ago!

  • Gabriel (unregistered)

    I find it funny also that the search result returned (posted in'07) was for a URL shortening service, whose domain name was longer than 'tinyurl.com' ;)

  • Deccy (unregistered) in reply to AT

    Ah well, I found it about 6 months ago, so there....

    They obviously have quite a backlog..

  • Burgz (unregistered)

    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

  • Rick (unregistered) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    SPAM!!!

  • gabba (unregistered)

    I like this approach. That's not a bug in my code; it's been tampered with.

  • (cs)

    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Nick: Congrats on sneaking your advertisement for linksqueeze onto the front page.

    Jake: You could easily have cropped the image a bit more, and in doing so eliminated Nick's shameless advertising.

  • bacon (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Who the h won't be using tinyurl here anyway? "Shortest URLS" right.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Link Squeeze? Ewwww!

    Nick Says: I was just checkin' out some online porn and I, ummm, launched some link squeeze.

    Jeeze, I squeeze my link now and then but I don't advertise it on a web page....

  • Pecos Bill (unregistered)

    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>. Anyone with taste never uses it.

  • Blort (unregistered)

    Is it fair to allow SAP errors? I mean, it's SAP. It's just one big error all by itself.

    Here's an idea: how about doing a special "Week of SAP WTFs"? There's enough material already to run it annually for the next 6142 years.

  • Blort (unregistered)

    Is it fair to allow SAP errors? I mean, it's SAP. It's just one big error all by itself.

    Here's an idea: how about doing a special "Week of SAP WTFs"? There's enough material already to run it annually for the next 6142 years.

  • (cs) in reply to Blort

    The internet 6142 years ago would have been like...

    Fred: Hey Barney, go online to bedrock.com and check out the new pedal cars Barney: Sorry Fred, there's a Pterodactyl on the vine and the server isn't responding Wilma: Betty, did you download the new recipe from Oprah.com? Betty: Nah, the kids are torturing Dino by watching Barney the dinosaur BamBam: (on the screen): Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, ...

  • (cs) in reply to Pecos Bill
    Pecos Bill:
    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>. Anyone with taste never uses it.
    IT'S A JOKE.

    I seriously doubt the original taker of that screenshot was looking for the blink tag.

  • (cs)

    [blink] was an awesome tag!

    Anytime the spec didn't have enough details for part of a web site, you wraped it with [blink] and suddenly management had all sorts of information on what should be there!

  • (cs) in reply to Dustin_00

    blink ranks right up there with marquee.

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to Gabriel
    Gabriel:
    I find it funny also that the search result returned (posted in'07) was for a URL shortening service, whose domain name was longer than 'tinyurl.com' ;)

    Depends...In the beginning, Tinyurl.com and Linksqu.com would compete on an equal footing. Now, Tinyurl.com is out of 4-character URL suffixes, so the next 36-50 callers (depending on the size of linksqueeze.com's alphabet) can get a URL at linksqueeze.com that will be shorter than any they can get from Tinyurl.com, and the next 1260-2450 callers can get a URL at linksqueeze.com that will be equal in length to a URL from tinyurl.com.

    I hope linksqueeze.com haven't paid for the ad campaign too far in advance...

    The real WTF is that "tinyurl.com" is such a long name.

  • Zygo (unregistered) in reply to Zygo
    Zygo:
    The real WTF is that "tinyurl.com" is such a long name.

    Heh...actually, the real WTF is that linksqueeze.com points to a page that starts with:

    linksqueeze.com:
    The LinkSqueeze service is temporarily down.

    and ends with:

    linksqueeze.com:
    We will be implementing these changes, and once it's done, we'll be back online. This should take no more than 24 hours.

    Last update: 8/5/2007 10AM EST

  • S (unregistered) in reply to Pecos Bill
    Pecos Bill:
    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>. Anyone with taste never uses it.

    No, the real WTF is you actually taking that seriously about the <blink> tag.

  • (cs) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    last 6142 years

    That's how old the earth is, right?

    Well, it's too random to be random. I suspect that someone actually did take the idea of "all records back to the earliest in the database" and crossed it with some peoples' calculation of the date of the Seven Days of Creation.

    Maybe they were originally going to use the geological age of the Earth, but some bozo defined the variable as a 16-bit int and it kept overflowing.

    (Note: not all of us Christians limit God to a human timescale, but YMMV.)

  • (cs) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    They should have named it "BLIND-CHICKEN.com".

    UGGGGH

  • Anon_Coder (unregistered) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    Sadly ironic that this HTML help site doesn't have a doctype thus rendering it's HTML impossible to validate and your browser stuck in quirks mode.

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

    ummmm... to late.

  • (cs) in reply to Pecos Bill
    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>.

    Damn right! They should be using the "blink" style attribute instead! It's so much more proper.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Link Squeeze? Ewwww!

    Nick Says: I was just checkin' out some online porn and I, ummm, launched some link squeeze.

    Jeeze, I squeeze my link now and then but I don't advertise it on a web page....

    oki... nobody wants to hear about your link... anonymously or not.

  • (cs)

    The author of the first one must be a young Earth creationist.

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    Hey, when I was new to these webbernets, funky-chickens.com was my favorite site to get HTML help from, honestly!

  • Theo (unregistered) in reply to Mexi-Fry
    Mexi-Fry:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    They should have named it "BLIND-CHICKEN.com".

    UGGGGH

    May I suggest "Blink-chicken" ?

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).

  • (cs) in reply to Pecos Bill
    Pecos Bill:
    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>. Anyone with taste never uses it.

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427

  • (cs) in reply to Renan_S2
    Renan_S2:
    Pecos Bill:
    The WTF for me is that someone wanted to use <blink>. Anyone with taste never uses it.

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030427

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991217 and http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991218

  • (cs) in reply to RobbieAreBest
    RobbieAreBest:
    blink ranks right up there with marquee.

    Just imagine a blink inside a marquee. The Web 1.0-ness of it brings tear to my eye. I miss geocities.

  • ned (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    isn't the earth 5757 years old?

  • (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).

    OMFG.

    Sorry everybody. I think I just killed validator.w3.org.

    Well, it might not be /quite/ dead, but it was certainly feeling very very depressed...

  • (cs) in reply to Mexi-Fry
    Mexi-Fry:
    ParkinT:
    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

    ummmm... to late.
    That is an outrage up with which I will not put! (Misspelling "too", not dangling a participle)

  • (cs) in reply to Blort
    Blort:
    Is it fair to allow SAP errors? I mean, it's SAP. It's just one big error all by itself.

    Here's an idea: how about doing a special "Week of SAP WTFs"? There's enough material already to run it annually for the next 6142 years.

    I can't and won't disagree with you.

  • (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    Mexi-Fry:
    ParkinT:
    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

    ummmm... to late.
    That is an outrage up with which I will not put! (Misspelling "too", not dangling a participle)

    Churchill said it best: "A preposition is something one should never end a sentence with."

  • James Schend (unregistered) in reply to bacon
    bacon:
    Who the h won't be using tinyurl here anyway? "Shortest URLS" right.

    To be fair, if you dig into the site: http://www.linksqueeze.com/short.html they claim to have a 4-letter domain name used for the actual service. LinkSqueeze.com is presumably just an easy-to-remember storefront. Their 4-letter domain was probably like kzxk, but fewer chars than tinyurl.

    Looks like the gave up on the service, though.

  • LabRat (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    So there is a grammar error in the HPLC error message. Big deal. As for the file name itself... You should see how some lab equipment vendors name their files. Some make this example look tame.

  • (cs) in reply to SenorLapiz
    SenorLapiz:
    Churchill said it best: "A preposition is something one should never end a sentence with."
    Churchill misquotes
  • (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I hadn't seen Funky Chicken before, but now I will use it as an inspired example of how NOT to design a Web page (unless you intend it to be used as an optical torture device).
    I totally agree, but consider its audience. Through squinted eyes I copied the following text:

    Resources for Your MySpace® Profile

    Pimp out your MySpace® profile - Backgrounds, Premade Layouts, Glitter Graphics, Contact Table Tweaks, Media Players and more.

    Tweaks for Your MySpace® profile - Layout Codes, Link Hover Codes, Image Codes Layout tweaks and much more!

    Look, do you really think MySpacers are going to even look at an HTML help site that doesn't at least look like MySpace -- pink and blue and WTF all over?

    I think they're trying to do a public service -- a harm-mitigation thing. Think of funky-chickens.com as the MySpace methadone clinic. Better than the alternative, though not by very darned much.

    I'm going to recommend it to my daughter.

  • nickf (unregistered)

    The first piece of advice from the funky-chickens HTML beginners page (aside from how to sign up for Geocities):

    http://www.funky-chickens.com/begin.shtml

    Here is the order of the sections of your site if you want to put it on: 
    <html>
<head></head>
<title>TITLE GOES HERE</title>
<body>EVERYTHING ON YOUR SITE GOES HERE... HTML CODES, TEXT </body>
</html>
    Brillant. I also love how it keeps referring to html "codes", as if it's a secret series of hieroglyphics.
  • (cs) in reply to FredSaw
    FredSaw:
    Mexi-Fry:
    ParkinT:
    It appears the message has been tampered with

    {I won't even mention the dangling participle!!}

    ummmm... to late.
    That is an outrage up with which I will not put! (Misspelling "too", not dangling a participle)
    Bah! I'm a programmer. Don't have to spell it right... just have to spell it the same =)

  • (cs) in reply to Burgz
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I learned something today.

    I learned that even though most people here seem to use windows, not many use IE.

    Do you know how I knew that?

    The javascript errors on every mouse movement tipped me off to the fact that maybe there is something firefox does not support.

    It has... a "mouse tail". spelling out, of course, Funky-chickens.com.

    I simply can not believe no-one commented on that.

  • mattman206 (unregistered)

    Holy crap! I'd forgotten that I'd submitted the Funky Chicken Html Help screenshot.....man, that must have been like 8 months ago.

    <blink> Glad it finally made it on. Now I know how to use the blink tag!</blink>

  • Sven (unregistered)

    The date one feels like somebody used something like DateTime.Now - DateTime.MinValue to come up with that number of years.

    Except obviously not in .Net since then it'd just be 2007.

  • (cs) in reply to Random832
    Random832:
    Burgz:
    Funky Chickens is some of the best HTML help out there. Really if i ever have a question i always head over to funky chickens.

    Check it out at www.Funky-Chickens.com.

    I learned something today.

    I learned that even though most people here seem to use windows, not many use IE.

    Do you know how I knew that?

    The javascript errors on every mouse movement tipped me off to the fact that maybe there is something firefox does not support.

    It has... a "mouse tail". spelling out, of course, Funky-chickens.com.

    I simply can not believe no-one commented on that.

    There are simply too many things wrong with that site to start with javascript errors.

  • clancy (unregistered)

    The real WTF (TM) is microsoft reading view

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