Accidental Humor

"Republicans put the interests of our country over those of other nations and of the UN..."

--1996 Republican Platform

--Civics: Participating in Government, pg. 462

In other words: "#%@$ world opinion - we're going it alone!"

"No, no looking over there [at the board]"

"Well, I don't even know the date"

"Well, its on the board!"

--Señor Mejía-Torres to Justin, asking about the date in the Spanish oral exam

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said: "He served his country a long time. History will tell what the implications of his tenure were."

"I think history will tell," the Illinois Republican said when asked how Tenet's performance would be judged. "It's too early to make that snap judgment."

"I think history will either vindicate him or say, 'Hey there was a problem there'," Hastert said

--Article on the departure of CIA director George Tenet

--Netscape News Network

Trifle repetitive, no?

The following text may be seen when joining a Yahoo! Group

	Convert to HTML.  Convert plain-text messages sent to me to HTML.
	Do not convert to HTML.  Don't change the format of messages sent to me.
	Note: The HTML format allows you to see colors and graphics in your messages.

Now they can convert plaintext to beautiful, colorful, image filled HTML - good job guys!

Are there any two legged mammals?

--Me, in CompSci class when trying to determine whether the getLegs() method of Mammal could just return 4

Caution: Powered speakers required for sound

--The back of my mom's new computer

Ranks right up there with "Warning: May go boom if plugged in while on" and "Caution: Do not drop into water"

log_level <default, secure, or verbose>

This specifies how verbose logs are. "default" is minimal logging, "secure" reports from what address a connection is opened, and when it is closed, and "verbose" records excessive amounts of information for debugging purposes. The default is "default".

--manpage for mpd

Really? I would have expected the default to be "verbose"

Ni

Cincinnus \Cin*cin"nus\, n.; pl. -ni. [Also cicinus, cicinnus.] [L., a curl of hair.] (Bot.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. -- Cin*cin\"nal, a.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

n : a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

--Dictionary.com search for "ni"

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM, expecting ']'

--PHP error message while running my SaveToDB.php renderer for HTML_QuickForm

Of course, a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. I'll go fix that right away...

ERROR:

• DB Error: connect failed

--Error message while looking for documentation on one of PEAR's database packages (MDB)

I'm glad I'm not dealing with them for my PHP DB package. Oh, wait...

Currently nothing else in the protocol requires the use of this number so it's pretty much useless, but somebody requested it be returned, so it is.

--LJ XML-RPC docs

At least they are responsive.

I invented a place called Senke, next door to Qatara. It is of course the ordinary German work for a geographical 'depression'.

--William Millward, on page 28 of Code breakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park

This and the above are, presumably, merely accidentally humorous situations, whereas the quote was intentionally amusing.

Gutierrez refuses to identify specific patents or explain how they're being infringed, lest FOSS advocates start filing challenges to them.

--Microsoft takes on the free world by Roger Parloff

Paraphrased: "We aren't going to tell you what laws you are breaking, because then you might show that you aren't breaking those laws." This is legal? Well, decent?

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