#BOFH excuse #360:

Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache.

#BOFH excuse #180:

ether leak

#BOFH excuse #243:

The computer fleetly, mouse and all.

#BOFH excuse #99:

SIMM crosstalk.

#BOFH excuse #366:

ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect

#BOFH excuse #292:

We ran out of dial tone and we're and waiting for the phone company to deliver another bottle.

#BOFH excuse #251:

Processes running slowly due to weak power supply

#BOFH excuse #154:

You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish (from most tunefs man pages)

#BOFH excuse #257:

That would be because the software doesn't work.

#BOFH excuse #15:

temporary routing anomaly