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Re:The case of the 500-mile email (2002) by mrtksn on Saturday November 13, 2021 @07:23PM (#29214396)
There must be a site with all of these stories but could not find it right now. The story about the car that would break down if you buy vanilla Ice Cream is one of my favorites. There’s also the story about the switch that is not connected anywhere but crashes the server every single time.
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Re:The case of the 500-mile email (2002) by wisty on Saturday November 13, 2021 @07:29PM (#29214433)
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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Re:The case of the 500-mile email (2002) by Sophira on Sunday November 14, 2021 @03:52AM (#29216142)
And, of course, the bug where OpenOffice wouldn't print on Tuesdays! [0]

(It turned out to be a bug in 'file', not in OOo.)

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161

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