Error Messages 1

[BJCooperIT]

I adore error messages that convey something totally unexpected. This one is courtesy of Reader's Digest:

My husband, Mark, was planning to attend a conference and was looking at airline schedules on the Internet. As he checked different combinations of flights, he mistakenly keyed in a return time that was before the departure time, only to see this message appear on the computer screen: "Sorry, time travel is not permitted."

[sup]Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.[/sup][sup] ~George Bernard Shaw[/sup]
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[IknowMe]

Red and CR, I would give proper credit to the author if I could remember where it was I heard it, but that's why it's so fitting.

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[CRilliterate]

I also feel like I saw it before but I forgot where or if.

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I am using Windows XP, Crystal Reports 9.0 with SQL Server

 

[jsteph]

Sounds very Steven Wright-ish.

 

[CRilliterate]

Allright, you got me, it is me, Wright...Steven Wright...

Sound Bondish, doesn't it?

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I am using Windows XP, Crystal Reports 9.0 with SQL Server

 

[phuzzy42]

Not exactly an error message, but...

Many years ago (1993 I think) we switched from two old no-longer-supported word processor programs (remember Writing Assistant and Office Writer?) to Word Perfect. I even wrote converters that made the switch relatively painless. My boss just would not change over - he was the last holdout. I pressured him to get switched and I always got "okay, okay, I'll do that."

After 3 more months and he wasn't switched over yet, I wrote a quicky program and put it on his computer - it ran every time he started the word processor and said "You only have X days before this program doesn't work any more. Are you sure you really want to use this program?" Every day it added another "really" to the "Are you sure?" prompt (Are you really really really really really sure?) so by the end of the month the prompt took up half the screen.

The last week I added new prompts every day to make him enter his phone number, his social security number, his wife's maiden name, and the full address of our company including city, state, and zip. And he had to go through this every time he ran the program. After the deadline, no matter what he did, the old program wouldn't run because the last prompt asked for his goldfish's name - and he didn't have a goldfish.

I'm lucky he has a sense of humor because he didn't kill me (or fire me) even after all that - he'd already switched over but was running the old program every day to see what else I came up with to "encourage" him.