That can’t happen. That doesn’t happen on my machine. That shouldn’t happen. Why does that happen? Oh, I see. How did that ever work?

[This is not mine. I posted it in the interest of personal archival because the oldest mention I could track down on the web appeared on a now-defunct weblog. In the meantime, Mike W. Cremer (who bills himself The Newton™ Scapegoat ☺) has claimed credit for coining it after a particularly frustrating DMA debugging session while slaving away on Dante (Newton OS 2.0). According to his account, this took place in Apple’s building at 5 Infinite Loop (nicknamed RD5 or IL5 ). The list was later to be found taped to Mike Engber’s door in IL2 .]