Random memory from my first real job once I got out of school at a maker for hardware-in-the-loop simulators for the automotive industry:

A colleague there told me that some years before I was hired, someone brought the "Design Patterns" book to work. Some managers then read it, severely misunderstood it, and decided on "the" design pattern to use from now on. They decided on the visitor pattern since it seemed "most general".

The story may have been a joke. But a lot of their code matched it.