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by noir_lord 3127 days ago
When I was young I wrote a system that had an error message that was "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" for a small local business (back in the 90's).

6mths after it was in production I got an email saying "The system won't work and it keeps calling me Dave!, I'm not called Dave, my name is Chris!".

Lesson learnt right there, never put funny error messages in with the intention of replacing them later and never swear in error messages.