my personal favourite still is from EUNICE, a germanized version of UNIX
which translated the shell message "broken pipe" to "gebrochene Pfeife"
which is "broken whistle" (seen at their booth at the CeBIT in Hannover
*many* years ago...)
Harald
-- All SCSI disks will from now on ___ _____ be required to send an email notice 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ 24 hours prior to complete hardware failure! <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// Harald Koenig, \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Inst.f.Theoret.Astrophysik // / \\ \ koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^