Haiku Error Messages

Nurses Humor

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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry. They use extreme brevity to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight.

Here are 16 Haiku error messages from Japan:

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The Web site you seek

Cannot be located, but

Countless more exist.

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Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

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Program aborting:

Close all that you have worked on.

You ask far too much.

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Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death!

No one hears your screams.

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Yesterday it worked.

Today it is not working.

Windows is like that.

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Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

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Stay the patient course.

Of little worth is your ire.

The network is down.

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A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.

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Three things are certain:

Death, taxes and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.

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You step in the stream,

But the water has moved on.

This page is not here.

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Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.

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Having been erased,

The document you're seeking

Must now be retyped.

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Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Specializes in ER, ICU, Occupational, Radiology.

:roll :roll :roll

Love it!

I have a weird, secret love for funny haiku. Thanks, Linda. :)

Cheers Linda, that raised a smile even on my tired face :)

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

loved it, thanks!

That was really cool

Why not start a haiku thread?

We can all join in.

Log on to this site

You'll stay a long long time here

Are you addicted?

Paint a word picture

In seventeen syllables

Five-seven-five form.

Specializes in OB.

Late night amusement

Many hours of time wasted

Allnurses (dot) com

:chuckle :roll :chuckle

Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.

have sent this to all my friends--- too funny!!

Karen

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