• Pawel Lis (unregistered)

    Frist?

  • Derp (unregistered)

    Sceond?

  • Geoff J (unregistered)

    Thrid?

  • MaxArt (unregistered)

    I was about to say I'm a Canon, but then I'd stick with Justice.

  • General Failure (unregistered)

    No love for generals either :(

  • bvs23bkv33 (unregistered)

    I want to say I'm nikon

  • Richard (unregistered)

    Regarding the "Title" combobox: I'm working on a green-field project at the moment, and I managed to convince my colleagues to use a textbox for the Title field rather than a combobox, for exactly this reason :)

    ... and then we needed to send our data to a different system which only accepted an even more restricted list than shown here. :(

  • bvs23bkv33 (unregistered)

    alco duchess and brother

  • Supachris (unregistered)

    TRWTF is sesstion.

  • The Right Honorable Admiral Very Reverend Canon Professor Sir Bender Bending Rodriguez III., CBE WTF LOL (unregistered)

    Obviously, Ben's prompt refers to "Lands in 9h 16m". By clicking "No, thanks", he prevented the plane from landing in time (or at all). Well done!

  • Dave (unregistered)

    Is the Bessima Pty Ltd one even a WTF? Or is it just that the company was incorporated (under that name?) 40+ years after starting to do business?

  • TheCPUWizard (unregistered)

    " mysterious prompt on the long-haul flight from Auckland to London" - unfortunately that dialog was for Oxygen [you know how expensive it is to pressurize an entire cabin]..

  • Bill (unregistered)

    The company that incorporated last year but has been in business for 46 years could have just been changed from a partnership or other form of ownership to a corporation.

  • The Great Bambini (unregistered)

    Maybe Sql server was unsuccessfully boxed...

  • WizardStan (unregistered)

    The fact that today is 46 years 295 days since the epoch makes me really suspicious of that 46 years 303 days since they started. It's within the bounds of "bad date comparison" (exactly 17095 days, divide by 365 = 46 years 301 days, even closer), so we may actually be looking at two overlapping WTFs: a database error or default value of 1/1/1970 being treated as real despite the real date being right there (two different dates?), and rolling your own date comparison and getting it wrong.

  • emmayche (unregistered)

    "Lord" works for any title of nobility. Of course, Americans wouldn't be expected to know that, as it isn't relevant to American society.

  • Ulysses (unregistered)

    Bessima incorporated in 2014 says the site, not 2015. Another likely Bowytz fail.

  • Herby (unregistered)

    Somebody needs to take a "chill pill".

  • TimothyB (unregistered)

    But now that you've replied to Herby, isn't that making things worse by proxy?

  • b l a k e y r a t (unregistered)

    You guys, I'm just kidding, this is really one of my favorite sites.

  • _that_guy_ (unregistered)

    I'm willing to hazzard, Adam, that we'll worry about crossing the duke bridge when you get to it.

  • jay (unregistered)

    I once came across a field called "sex code". I was expecting it to be one character, "M" or "F", or something of that sort. But when I looked at the data it was two digits numeric. Had me wondering if it was not "which" but "how often" or "how good at it". Turned out these were numeric code for a slew of titles like here, 01=Mr, 02=Mrs, ... 10=Doctor ... 23=General, etc.

  • January First-of-May (unregistered)

    I expected Rick Astley. Was very disappointed.

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