Quote Originally Posted by KrisSimonis
Not a real error message, but a client once called the helpdesk of the office I used to work at several years ago after having installed a new version of his custom software to fix some bugs.
He said that the application was running fine except that it kept making mentions of all kinds of fruit and vegetables and different kinds of cheese, and he wondered why it wasn't any mentions of meat.
The helpdesk employee who knew I had done the bugfix ran over to me and asked what the hell was going on, then I realized that I had forgotten to remove my debug messages, which I had put a lot of in there to test the code line by line without a proper step by step debugging tool.
So I told him to tell the customer he'll get a more silent update soon, and that the reason there weren't any meat products mentioned was that our software was on a strictly vegetarian diet to avoid bugs. ( The 'theme' I had used to remember what debug messages were good and which ones were bad were that I had put Meat products in places where the program shouldn't be doing things while executing, and fruit and vegetables for the good parts. )
This antedocte has been circulating for at least 17 years that I have been able to trace. It would be interesting to see how you support being the original author....