Abort, Retry, Fail?

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honestly I never did figure out what to type in this situation, I always just had to turn the computer off

Poll Results

Option	Votes
abort	6
retry	5
fail	5

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago)

bonus t/s: abort retry fail vs. bookmark suggest ban permalink

― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago)

Did "retry" EVER work?

― Helping 3 (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago)

fail

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago)

get a mac or linuxbox

― did you c/p that randomly or what (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago)

http://0.tqn.com/d/movies/1/0/h/q/P/thebourneultimatumpic20.jpg

CODE 10

― mookieproof, Friday, 2 September 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

I occasionally used to get "Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?"

A long time ago in the floppy disk era, occasionally I'd get the ARF message when trying to read something off a floppy, and if I chose "retry" and pushed the edge of the diskette upwards, it would read it.

― life should have a slow-moving fan (Lee626), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

"Who is General Failure, and why is s/he reading my hard drive?"

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 15 September 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Close race.

― ilx user 'silby' (silby), Thursday, 15 September 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

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