While Digging for fun, I found this site about unix jokes. I'm always up for a laugh!
http://vipinsagar.net/2006/11/22/unix-error-jokes/
Naturally, I'm a geek and found these following joke-errors VERY funny…
The following Unix puns were distributed on the Usenet, without an attributed author. They work with the C shell.
% rm meese-ethics rm: meese-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % "How would you rate Dan Quayle's incompetence? Unmatched ". % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. % sleep with me bad character % got a light? No match. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % %blow %blow: No such job.These attempts at humor work with the Bourne shell:
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink < bottle ; opener bottle: cannot open opener: not found $ mkdir matter; cat >matter matter: cannot create