# WTF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 21, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092 "2000-06-21T13:48:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/1 "2000-06-21T13:48:41Z")

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My cow-orker just pulled a stupid one. We have a backup system here, and it works on a weekly cycle- any error over a week old doesn’t matter, because we do weekly full backups and daily partial backups. One backup in a remote site had an error- a simple ‘the file is open, so we can’t copy it’ error. My cow-orker and I check the logs daily for any problems. She claimed to find a “tape format not valid” error, or something like that. I could not find said error, and when I peeked over the cube wall to look, I noticed why. The error **did** happen. _ **IN MARCH of LAST year!** _ This is not the oddest one today either…

Anyone else have any odd cow-orker stories?

WTS- hoping for a stray asteroid…

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**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/2 "2000-06-21T14:11:10Z")

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got one for you **Wonko** , Dan just ran out of deoderant again. can you smell him?

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/3 "2000-06-21T15:28:52Z")

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Would that be the NYC Dan, or the Tosco Oil Dan?

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/4 "2000-06-21T15:29:57Z")

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'Cause I think I can smell the Tosco Dan, and I’m 95 miles away, but then again, I’m downwind.

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**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/5 "2000-06-21T16:51:15Z")

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must be nyc dan, cause i’m right near him, and i think i might need to go to the hospital later and have them let me wear an oxygen mask for a while.

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf/23092/6 "2000-06-21T18:02:59Z")

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[http://www.legendgiftshop.com/legendgift/dirdanpumsoa.html](http://www.legendgiftshop.com/legendgift/dirdanpumsoa.html)  
the above is a random link inserted for a randomly selected reason…

The person in question at my work asked for a calculator today. We have NT destop machines on every desk. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!