Mechanismatic

Still pretty common today.

Hollywood producers: “13 pages, you say? That’s enough for a new trilogy!”

As smoke drifts off the thusly smote corpse of the aforementioned villain, a whispy shade materializes over the body and resumes where the villain left off, stating: “…and so you will never find the mystical orb of Theremas in the dark tower of Zyyzaxes, beyond the fire jungles of Lardamas, near the equally dreadful pits of awkward socialization, just short of the black cave of high school reunions!”

“Okay, I switched to Linux, now I’m getting this error message: _______.”

“Install ______.”

“It gives me this error now: ______.”

“You have to update the _____ library first.”

“It won’t let me.”

“You have to use sudo.”

“It tells me to clone the git via the command line, but git says verifying login from command line isn’t supported any more.”

“You’re following seven year old instructions.”

“They’re the only instructions I can find.”

“You should switch to this other flavor of Linux.”