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Re: Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)
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Re: Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)


  • Subject: Re: Fun error messages (was Re: styled text to record, ...)
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:27:39 +0000

Dave Balderstone wrote on Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:44:52 -0600:

>10 years or so back (OS 7 or 8) a client sent me a screen shot of an
>error message that said:
>
>"A serious system error has occurred. This is probably not a good
>thing."

My 3p: :-)

If JPEGView tries to run a slide-show from a folder that no longer
exists, you get: "Hey! This wasn't supposed to happen! Unknown Error
#-1705. Proceed with caution."

Atari BASIC used to mope along ineffectually like a tortoise in porridge
and eventually (and inevitably) stop and display a small window in the
middle of the screen saying: "Something is wrong." I always used to think
of this as casting new light on the ST's main selling point, which was
its "WIMP" environment.

In my early days on the Net, I tried to register a product on Microsoft's
Web site and ran into this impasse, which I believe was actually quite
well known: "Uh-oh, Nigel. You haven't entered your fax number. Without
that, we can't honor your wish not to be sent faxes. Please scroll down
and enter your fax number before continuing."

NG
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