It occurs to me that I shouldn't have posted it as it might give some of our Dyanverse and Forum operators ideas ...
A List of some of my favourite resutls from the excuse generator:
PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
Support staff hung over, send aspirin and come back LATER.
Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight.
Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.
User was distributing pornography on server; system seized by FBI.
Bad cafeteria food landed all the sysadmins in the hospital.
Evil dogs hypnotised the night shift
root rot
We need a licensed electrician to replace the light bulbs in the computer room.
LBNC (luser brain not connected)
That function is not currently supported, but Bill Gates assures us it will be featured in the next upgrade.
Communist revolutionaries taking over the server room and demanding all the computers in the building or they shoot the sysadmin. Poor misguided fools.
Me no internet, only janitor, me just wax floors.
Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers
The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know.
You must've hit the wrong any key.
Plasma conduit breach
Mouse has out-of-cheese-error
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
We've picked COBOL as the language of choice.
Mailer-daemon is busy burning your message in hell.
Packet held up at customs.
Your cat tried to eat the mouse.
the daemons! the daemons! the terrible daemons!
Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads
no "any" key on keyboard