What's the funniest user request you've ever had?

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Users sometimes come up with the most amusing, weird and wonderful requirements for programmers to design and implement.

Today I read a memo from my boss that we need the "ability to import any excel or access data, irrespective of size, easily and quickly."

From the same memo, we have a requirement to "know if anyone unauthorized accessed the system" - as if a hacker is going to leave his calling card wedged between an index and a foreign key somewhere.

I think my boss has been watching too much "Star Trek"... :)

What's the funniest user request you've ever had?

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