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Once upon a time I wrote a line printer plotting package which had
what may have been the most obsequious error messages of all time.
Typical messages ran like this

Honored and revered sir, this unworthy program is desolated to inform
you that it can not properly use your range coordinate of -37.  The
base and thoughtless programmer who composed this program has restricted
it to values lying between 0 and 100.

The program, which was written in fortran, was about 80% format statements.
As I recall people used to deliberately run jobs with errors in them just
to see what the diagnostics would be.

-- 
Richard Harter, Software Maintenance and Development Systems, Inc.
Net address: jjmhome!smds!rh Phone: 508-369-7398 
US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742
This sentence no verb.  This sentence short.  This signature done.