# Great instructional advice

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 13, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-instructional-advice/476995 "2008-12-13T06:18:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-instructional-advice/476995/1 "2008-12-13T06:18:26Z")

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I was reading through a ReadMe file for a TV card that is giving me a bit of a problem and I ran across the following:

> [@](#):
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> Starting Media Center while recording:  
> Don’t do this. Bad things will happen

That is it. It doesn’t explain what bad things will happen, just that _something_ bad will occur.

I love that.

Slee