What Easter Eggs have you placed in code?

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I know it is illegal to place Easter eggs in code via Microsoft's quarrel with the law a few years back. Microsoft has decided that if you place Easter eggs in code, it is an immediate grounds for termination, but they are still out there in the wild. I know I put my name in the code a lot that will never show up to the users, but it is always fun to do.

So, what Easter eggs have you seen or placed in your programs/code?

One of mine was: Query = [Current_Step] = 'Scott Rocks'

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