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Not everything that is funny is a bug. Sometimes, intention is funnier than error.


The pride of my collection (cheers Mackie for returning this to me):

I wish Windows developed such a sense of frankness :)

goo’s computer decided to warn her of the dangers of me:

Can’t say I blame it, myself.

The following is the warning message shown when attempting to terminate a process under EPOC (very British):

The following is my old development environment under which I wrote (and still work on) Gorillas Deluxe. Ignore the title bar – which Windows chose for me – because it is wrong! It is the mini QBasic that shipped with MS-DOS and not the full Microsoft QuickBASIC compiler. (Cheers Microsoft for being able to correctly identify your own programs!)

A “strange error” indeed, you say? hmm… Let me don my deerstalker and smoke on my pipe in true Crab of Ineffable Wisdom style.

The following screenshot is from the game Overkill, published by Epic MegaGames:

I am not sure what the lawyers would say about the curious use of such locales as Hoth and Gallifrey, but I love the “holy cow!” difficulty setting =) That game also had surprisingly good music for AdLib.