What were they thinking?

Luigi The Cat wrote:
Yep, it's like this:
Yep, that one actually does have an explanation...
The system tries to put the file in the Recycle Bin before it removes it from the original location. So you have to at least have enough space to hold a copy of the original file.
Or you can just shift-delete and it'll go away completely but you can't undo!

OK... so I'm working on rebuilding the OS on an older machine, and on reboot the AMI BIOS gives me the following error message:
No Keyboard Found.
Press F2 to continue.
Now, I've seen this kind of message before, but I'm thinking... OK, so you can't find a keyboard attached, but you want me to press the F2 key on it... hummm.... Makes me wonder sometimes what the programmer was thinking when they typed up that error message. Did they really think that it was logical, or just not think that one through.. certainly seems like someone else would have caught that one.
Just wondering what really odd, or downright silly error messages others have seen.
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