>> I'm told various versions of the Linux kernel had absurd messages like 
>> "Penguin on the SCSI bus" and "The printer is on fire"...

"The printer is on fire" apparently meaning a [very] unexpected response 
received from the printer. (The kernel has no idea what on earth it 
means, hence the daft message.)

The SCSI bug error is similar.

I have no recollection of where I got these gems from.

> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Linux-2.6-oops-parisc.jpg 

Nice ASCII art. :-P

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd#Error_messages

LMAO @ EIEI0

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