Oh! Blimey, there's a nostalgia trip! I had a boss once who was a really highly-strung, volatile, bad-tempered ogre. Whenever his Mac crashed (which it did frequently), he used to come STORMING out of his office screaming: "THE WHOLE FREAKIN' SYSTEM'S COLLAPSED!!". That was my cue to go into his office and reboot. Sometimes I'd zap the PRAM too if he was watching, because that's the kind of kung-fu that wins pay rises. Anyway - this was a frequent routine and everyone was familiar with the slamming doors and the hysterical outburst - always the same phrase. One day, when he was off on holiday, we snuck into his room and fired up his Mac, and used ResEdit to change every dialogue box we could find to say: "THE WHOLE FREAKIN' SYSTEM'S COLLAPSED!!!". The following Monday when he came back from holiday, as usual he shut himself in his office to catch up with all his jobs. Within half an hour, we heard the familiar sound of his chair crashing to the floor as he stomped to the door which flew open - he stormed out with a red face and steam coming from his ears and stood shaking with fury, and said... "FFFFFFFFFFRRRFFFFRFFFFFF!!!!" and then turned around and stormed back into his office again! Five minutes later he came out and asked politely, with a smile, if I could fix his computer for him. A lucky escape!
