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And p.i.c.n.i.c.
Problem in Chair not in computer.
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I remember ADIDAS when we were young - all day I dream about sex
Now my son refuses to wear GAP hoodies in case his friends call him gay and proud, which is what they say it stands for!
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Also used in IT support :
PICNIC - problem in chair, not in computer
PEBCAK - problem exists between chair and keyboard
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And of course the old ID 10T error.
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BOBFOC - body off Baywatch face off Crimewatch
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Back in the old days of mainframes and CICS (yes, I am that old) we used to refer to particularly malformed SQL as an "Ernie query" because you couldn't see the join...
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BAAPS
British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
< no really, they are ... >
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DTS Danger To Shipping (doctor's term for obese patient)
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^^ Not an acronym, though...
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Off topic slightly, but my favourite error messages are, from a postfix server "Something has gone horribly wrong so I'm going to kill myself" and it promptly stopped the service, and from the old BBC model B I've had the error message of "silly command".
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The Windows error messages in the form of Japanese haiku are hilarious too.
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I know. I thought Em might like it, all the same.
TEETH: tried everything else, try homeopathy. (Also doctor's description.)
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One of my programmers accidentally left a test error message in a TP program after it had gone live.
A few weeks later a rather surprised IT Help Desk operator logged the following conversation :
User : "my computer has just told me to stop being an ârse"
HD : "what were you doing?"
User : "well basically I was being an ârse .."
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Being that I have to live up to my avatar:- HOLLAND- Hope our love lives and
never dies!
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The Woodside & North Kelvin community centre in Glasgow changed to the North Kelvin & Woodside community centre.
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In the earlier days computers there used to be quite a lot of funny error messages but sadly they all seem to have gone now the platforms have had to grow up a bit. It did always make me smile when something like “file has bad magic" popped up as an error.
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Appalling day weather wise? Its like a summers day here today (Essex)
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Not at 9am it wasn't.
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BRA - Bosom Regulating Accessory
BA - bugger all
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The 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck', (NIPLS), was formed in 1824. It became the RNLI 30 years later.
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