[LarryMade2]

Scratch Monkey - Its a sad classic of computing lore. Here is a brief and less harrowing version of it: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html

[veddox]

The Jargon File is always a good source for stories like that :D "Do what I mean (DWIM)" is another good entry for that (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html)