>Anyway, I'd been meaning to post this, but had to do it when this happened tonight: The station played "Dave Matthews Band - American Baby", so that displayed. Then for some reason, the display briefly switched to "The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger", but that did not play and it quickly changed to "Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer", which did play. But because of the first issue I mentioned where the ending part of a longer artist/title is still visible when a shorter artist/title follows it, the display read "Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer our Finger". Ouch! <g> I'm sure if I paid closer attention I'd catch a few more choice combos. So much for high-tech!

I've seen it in PDP Cobol twenty years ago - the fields entered would overlay the values already in the buffer, never bothering to clear the rest. So for, say, cities, if the previous city entered was "Washington" and the next one was "York", the 2nd record would end up containing "Yorkington". Which probably got fixed soon - I came in two years later, and there was still a lot of such garbage in the lookups ;).

But for a funny play like what you just saw, I recommend keeping an eye on the ads (not an ear, just an eye) on TV, without sound, but with subtitles closed captions on. Very often, the last sentence from one ad will stay uncleared for two or three more, so you get makeup or diapers "built tough", or a truck you need to ask your doctor about.