Judge: Mr. Phillips, please answer the question! Duke Phillips: All right! Yes, I sold the mustard gas to Qaddafi! Judge: What? Duke Phillips: Uh... mustard... gives me gas, as does taffy. Judge: I have the same problem with fresh fruit.
20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before"
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything."
9. "THIS can't be the source code of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?"
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
And the Number One Reply by programmers when their programs don't work:
1. "I thought i fixed that."
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I porn-surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious porn-site of "hot chicks galore",
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
"Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
Quote the server, "404."
To offer Klingons safe haven
within Federation space is suicide.
Klingons would become
the alien trash of the galaxy.
And if we dismantle the fleet
we'd be defenseless
before an aggressive species
with a foothold on our territory.
The opportunity here
is to bring them to their knees.
Then we'll be in a far better position to dictate terms.