Article 5V0PY Error'd: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left...

Error'd: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left...

by
Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#5V0PY)

...Right B A. Right? Every so often, someone sends us asubmission with a hidden agenda. Of course we get the usualsolicitations for marriageable exotic beauties and offers totrade linkspam locations. But then there are the reallyinteresting ones. Maybe they're legitimate, maybe they'rephotoshopped or otherwise faked, and maybe they're an attemptto bypass someone's ban on political propaganda or quack science.In any case, there isn't any of that here this week, but we'resaving them up and maybe we'll feature a future issue of spotthe fraud for you.

First up is dog loverGeorge with a hysterical spam-blocking email address, sharinga help message that must have been crafted by Catbert himself."My sixty seconds of glory awaits!" he howls, but then whimpers"I will be real disappointed if the agent isn't[Gone in Sixty Seconds headliner] Nicolas Cage."

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Not to single out Insperity, though. Job hunterQuentin G. growls at iCIMS "I suppose since they don'thave an email that does make them pretty unavailable." Anybody want toargue that at least "unvailable variable" is a better failure mode than"undefined"? I'm on the fence.

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Music fanJoel has sent us a rash of submissions. His explanation isthat "While either the image or the text are obviously a reasonableresultfor the search terms, the combination is... interesting."
We suggesttrying a different laundry detergent.

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Bug HunterDavid B. screenshots this from his iPhone."I was just checking for a potential version error.I didn't find the one I was expecting."

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One of the most famous rivers in Western history has been famously lost for centuries. How do you lose a river?Historians recently have declaredit found, but even so, it is scarcely safe home and dry.
ReaderJeremy Pereira reckons it's been smuggling messages through the Web."A fairly run of the mill error on a Wikipedia page,but it ends with a heartbreaking plea." Can't somebody do something?

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