I remember I saw a list once of funny errors due to user variables and what not. One of them was an error where there was no variable or function of that name, so it was like
{
God()
}
Error: God does not exist.
There was a whole list of them, very funny.
EDIT:I found one of those lists.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jford/man/
Quote:
% cat "food in cans"
cat: cannot open food in cans
% nice man woman
There is not an entry for woman.
% who is my match?
who: No match.
% ar t God
ar: Error: God does not exist
% ar r God
ar: Warning: creating God
% ^How did the sex change operation go?
^ Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% make mistake
Make: Don't know how to make mistake. Stop.
% make sense
Make: Don't know how to make sense. Stop.
make friends with target
make: *** No rule to make target `friends'. Stop.
% got a light?
got: No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% test my argument
test: argument expected
$ lost
lost: not found
$ PATH=pretending!/usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
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