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Revision as of 13:28, 1 April 2015

Help! We lost the picture

[After clicking on the red button on the first page you will go to the next page]
[At the top of the page there are the following text:]
Help! We lost the picture that goes with this post!
[For cases where the user has to submit or select a picture according to a text]
Help! we lost the text that goes with this post!
[For cases where the user has to submit or select a text according to a picture]
Reason for data loss:
[Here on this same line follows a text which is a random reason taken from Randall's (or others?) input. See examples below).]
[Below this text is a white box on top of the light blue background. It is the post mentioned above. At the top is a random user picture - could be a person or a galaxy etc (see descriptions below). Next to the picture is a random user name (see descriptions below). The picture can be used for several user names.]
[Below the user name is the text of the post. This text is also random. (Note now for Aprils Fools' day - are the entries in the table below both for the reason and for the posts. Can they be both or is it two different sets of random reasons/posts?)]
[Below is a blue rectangle where the missing picture should be. Instead there is only a white questionmark:]
?

Reason for data loss

Sentence Explanation
<%= reason %>
+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR. REDO FROM START +++
AOL window in front of Netscape window
Baby ur much 2 fast
butter overflow butter instead of buffer
CRM-114 unit malfunctioning
could not initialize sound blaster 16
data too big
Desystematized chronodynamic balancing detected in VX Module core.
electrons too big, stuck in wafer
error reading drive B. Abort, Retry, Fail?
ethics in journalism
files overwritten with more interesting content
floating point unit no longer afloat
friday squid blogging
guru meditation #00000025.65045338 press left mouse button to continue
GSM filter change required
hard drive oil depleted
helvetica scenario
illegal carrot detected in mail queue carrot instead of caret
insufficient smoke for current mirror array
lp0 on fire lp0 is the printer port, there used to be a 'printer on fire' error/warning
Main Bus B Undervolt
mean connection time exceeded
microwave running
nanobots in the water
oh jeez there's a lot of you can you all just hang on for a second please oh frig this is so bad
out of electrons
out of monads Monads are a concept in functional programming languages, such as Haskell.
overcurrent undervolt caused by vacuum cleaner on same circuit
Please Insert Riven CD 4
qubit indeterminate
RDBMS completely forgot how inner joins work
server aperture too narrow for capital letters
server fell in ocean
server room haunted
Something went wrong: Something went wrong (Something went wrong) similar to certain OS error messages which contain errors in themselves
spin number must be of the form n/2
spontaneous splinal dereticulation
SQL ejection ejection instead of injection
temporal paradox
the butter you have dialed is invalid or no longer in service
the server is temporarily permanent. Please try another also.
This copy of Ubuntu is not genuine and you have not yet resolved this issue. Ubuntu is open source and does not require a license, so this kind of message would never happen.
This page contains content from the Open Source Initiative, who have blocked it on copyright grounds.
TRIED TO READ 9TH SIDE OF 8 TRACK
undefined is not a function, which really makes you think
unexpected timezone drift desynchronization
User accepted terms but not conditions
user put spaces/vowels in filename
UTF-31 decode error UTF-31 instead of UTF-32
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

User names

[Below are possible (not all?) user names mentioned next to any post as for instance on the Help! We lost the picture page.]
[In alphabetical order:]
  • Aidan2
  • Marie3
  • Lord Mondegreen
  • Paul1957


User pictures

[Below are descriptions of possible (not all?) user pictures shown next to any user name as for instance on the Help! We lost the picture page.]
  • [Hairy complete stick figure]
  • [Chipmunk]
  • [Close up of male face with black hair on a gray background]



Our policy regarding your personal data:

  • Please stop sending us your personal data
  • We are running out of places to put it
  • Is this even yours?
  • Does anyone recognize whose data this is?
  • Oh jeez never mind here comes more data
  • Why are you doing this
  • Please stop
  • Help

This page allows users to submit entries to the "xkcloud", which has other images (drawn by other people? Someone confirm) to vote on, or "Draw Your Own" image options.

There is also a variant in which one creates text to go with an image.

xkcloud has "Like" buttons, similar to those on Facebook, but with random alternative text. Examples include:

  • covet
  • crave
  • like-like
  • hanker
  • yearn