Re: Most infamous "Last words":

[rinceWind]

in reply to Most infamous "Last words":

This poll reminds me of "Don't try this at home".

I can think of a few others:

• Just run this SQL on the live database
• Shut down and restart - everything will be fine
• apt-get upgrade
• we can always restore from the backup

Or from history:

• Charge! (Charge of the Light Brigade)
• Captain, the swimming pool seems to be leaking. (Titanic)
• That was a test run? (Chernobyl)

[Grey Fox]

We can always restore from the backup. Is usually followed by does anybody know where the backup is?? Right after somebody started the initialization

[swampyankee]

You want more, do you?

Vaguely program related:

• Nobody needs more than 2 characters to represent the year.
• The number of transactions won't be that many. (see $32 Billion Overdraft)
• We're not live. (SF Federal Reserve Bank 2 Billion Dollar Goof)

and not

• I can cross the tracks before that train,
• I wanted to see if it [the lawn mower's blade] was turning.
• What do you mean I can't smoke on home oxygen?
• I thought it wasn't loaded.