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#BOFH excuse #110: The rolling stones concert down the road caused a brown out

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Aug 02, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #305: IRQ-problems with the Un-Interruptible-Power-Supply

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Aug 02, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #295: The Token fell out of the ring. Call us when you find it.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Aug 01, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #141: disks spinning backwards - toggle the hemisphere jumper.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 31, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #272: Netscape has crashed

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 31, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #168: le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem?

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 30, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #332: suboptimal routing experience

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 29, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #366: ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 29, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #447: According to Microsoft, it's by design

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 29, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #334: 50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 28, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #443: Zombie processes detected, machine is haunted.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 28, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #401: Sales staff sold a product we don't offer.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 28, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #5: static from plastic slide rules

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 27, 2026

#BOFH excuse #253: We've run out of licenses

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 27, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #266: All of the packets are empty.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 26, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #6: global warming

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 25, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #13: we're waiting for [the phone company] to fix that line

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 25, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #203: Write-only-memory subsystem too slow for this machine. Contact your local dealer.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 25, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #306: CPU-angle has to be adjusted because of vibrations coming from the nearby road

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 25, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #449: greenpeace free'd the mallocs

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 24, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #103: operators on strike due to broken coffee machine

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 24, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #399: We are a 100% Microsoft Shop.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 23, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #404: Sysadmin accidentally destroyed pager with a large hammer.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 23, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #16: somebody was calculating pi on the server

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 22, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #163: no "any" key on keyboard

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 22, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #410: Electrical conduits in machine room are melting.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 21, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #417: Computer room being moved. Our systems are down for the weekend.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 21, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #178: short leg on process table

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 20, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #338: old inkjet cartridges emanate barium-based fumes

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 19, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #434: Please state the nature of the technical emergency

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 18, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #377: Someone hooked the twisted pair wires into the answering machine.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 18, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #57: Groundskeepers stole the root password

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 17, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #130: new management

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 17, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #220: Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 16, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #262: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 16, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #171: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 12, 2026

#BOFH excuse #50: Change in Earth's rotational speed

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 09, 2026

#BOFH excuse #409: The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 02, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #164: root rot

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jul 01, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #399: We are a 100% Microsoft Shop.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Jun 25, 2026

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#BOFH excuse #198: Post-it Note Sludge leaked into the monitor.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · May 13, 2026

#BOFH excuse #216:

What office are you in? Oh, that one. Did you know that your building was built over the universities first nuclear research site? And wow, aren't you the lucky one, your office is right over where the core is buried!

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · May 09, 2026

#BOFH excuse #115:

your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · May 01, 2026

#BOFH excuse #54:

Evil dogs hypnotised the night shift

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Apr 29, 2026

#BOFH excuse #403:

Sysadmin didn't hear pager go off due to loud music from bar-room speakers.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Apr 23, 2026

#BOFH excuse #168:

le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem?

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Apr 22, 2026

#BOFH excuse #222:

I'm not sure. Try calling the Internet's head office -- it's in the book.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Apr 08, 2026

#BOFH excuse #330:

quantum decoherence

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Apr 01, 2026

#BOFH excuse #233:

TCP/IP UDP alarm threshold is set too low.

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BOFH Excuses @bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com · Feb 19, 2026

#BOFH excuse #113:

Root nameservers are out of sync

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