[Sca-cooks] OT, OOP...Much Kinder Error Messages

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/20/2001 1:54:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:

> In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
>  error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each with only 17
>  syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second, five in the
>  third.

More Error Haiku

Corwyn

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Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
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Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
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Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
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Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
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This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
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wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
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"With girls I get no respect.  A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach."

     - Rodney Dangerfield