BOFH Excuses

#BOFH excuse #54:

Evil dogs hypnotised the night shift

#BOFH excuse #115:

your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes.

#BOFH excuse #403:

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

#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!

#BOFH excuse #168:

le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem?

#BOFH excuse #222:

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

#BOFH excuse #330:

quantum decoherence