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by lt 4324 days ago
Or the "Car allergic to vanilla ice cream" tale.

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/IceCream/humor.html
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poizan42 4324 days ago
Or the "OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays" bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
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jes5199 4323 days ago
That one reminds me of the system I worked on years ago that wouldn't accept credit cards that expired in August or September (of any year).
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T-hawk 4317 days ago
I bet it was a Javascript system that tried to interpret month numbers of 08 and 09 as octal because of the leading zero. Am I close?
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bjterry 4323 days ago
That's clearly a tale rather than a true event. The guy would have noticed during other extremely short trips that his car wouldn't start afterwards.
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