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Thread Author: Iffy Replies: 15
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 08:26 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Iffy
I clicked on the banner ad on this site for the Mitsubishi ASX Crossover, and up popped the following message:


Something's gone wrong!
There is a problem with the page: www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/asx/special-offers.aspx. But don’t worry! We already know about it and will have our techies humiliated until they fix it.
In the meantime, why not look at the working parts of the site?


Very droll.


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 Wed 8 Aug 12 08:44 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Zero
When youtube goes down its says "A team of monkeys has been dispatched to fix the problem"
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:11 
 A car maker's sense of humour - John H
>> Something's gone wrong!
>> There is a problem with the page: www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/asx/special-offers.aspx. But don’t worry! We already know about
>> it and will have our techies humiliated until they fix it.
>> In the meantime, why not look at the working parts of the site?
>>

Clicking that link, I get this:

"That page does not exist!
It appears that the page you’re looking for doesn’t exist.
Would you like to try a different route?"

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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:13 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Manatee
That was the fix!
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:33 
 A car maker's sense of humour - John H
>> That was the fix!
>>

An IT department that fixes things within the hour! Whatever next?

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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:35 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Zero
its not fixed, merely a "work around"

If its not broke, dont touch it.

If its broke, hide it.
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 11:13 
 A car maker's sense of humour - John H
>> its not fixed, merely a "work around"
>>
>> If its not broke, dont touch it.
>>
>> If its broke, hide it.
>>

Looks like it was an iffy link in the OP. ;)

See Vxfan's explanation below.

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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:53 
 A car maker's sense of humour - VxFan
>> Clicking that link, I get this:
>>
>> "That page does not exist!

That's because of the full stop at the end of the link

Try this one

www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/asx/special-offers.aspx
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 09:54 
 A car maker's sense of humour - VxFan
>> Try this one

And you get the OPs message that he got (until they fix it anyway)
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 10:30 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Focusless
They've fixed it! (for me)
Last edited by: Focus on Wed 8 Aug 12 at 10:30
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 10:44 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Dog
>>They've fixed it! (for me)<<

Where's Jim when ya need im!
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 Thu 9 Aug 12 00:03 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Dutchie
Jim is six feet under.>:)
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 Wed 8 Aug 12 13:02 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Iffy
...That's because of the full stop at the end of the link...

I cut and pasted the extract in one piece from the website, so the full stop was already there.

Presumably because there's no point in click linking to a page you are already on.

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 Wed 8 Aug 12 13:20 
 A car maker's sense of humour - J Bonington Jagworth
"will have our techies humiliated until they fix it"

The floggings will continue until morale is improved.. :-)
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 Thu 9 Aug 12 09:38 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Iffy
Seems Mitsubishi's sense of humour has failed along with its site.

The message now reads:


Something's gone wrong!
There is a problem with the page: www.mitsubishi-cars.co.uk/asx/index.aspx. But don’t worry! We already know about it and are working on fixing it as soon as possible.
In the meantime, why not look at the working parts of the site?

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 Thu 9 Aug 12 18:27 
 A car maker's sense of humour - Dave_
Sometimes Fir efox fails to start up on my computer, and it shows a message which begins "Well, this is embarassing." At leat they're honest.
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