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Abort, Retry, Fail?

Abort, Retry Fail? or sometimes Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? was an error message displayed in DOS when unable to read data. The user is prompted to hit either A, R, I or F accordingly.

Abort - Aborts the operation.
Retry - Tries to read the data again.
Ignore - Hands "default data" to the application requesting the data.
Fail - Tries to continue without the data. Fail nearly always proves unsuccessful as it will result in missing data.

Retry is in most cases the only hope for success.
Data error reading Drive C:
Abort, Retry, Fail?

'Abort, Retry, Fail?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, {always} choose 'Retry.'

Bad'l Ron, Wakener
Morgan Polysoft
by Atratus August 7, 2006
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made of fail

Lacking in coolness. Bad at something. Used as a descriptive term when either seriously or jokingly telling someone that they suck.
Lolcats are made of fail.

That guy stood me up. He's so made of fail.
by Bonnie B. August 20, 2007
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Captain Fabulous

When Captain Falcon dons his white muscle-suit, pink gloves, pink boots, and screws on his nipple-caps extra tight, he becomes Captain Fabulous.

An alternate costume for Captain Falcon in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Be sure to use his taunt at every opportunity for added innuendo. It's still the best taunt in the game, fabulous or not.
Smasher #1: *loses* You're fucking gay.

Smasher #2: *wins* Not nearly as gay as Captain Fabulous raping your Fox just now.
by M. Reardon January 5, 2009
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you fail it

A term that could be used as an insult or to take the piss when someone makes a silly mistake (a bit like 'duh' or similar) or fails something (like a test or challenge).

Originates from a game called 'Blazing Star', where the game over message reads: "You fail it! Your skill is not enough, see you next time, bye-bye"
by T.U.D October 1, 2003
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Raven fail

When someone who's been chatting in a chat room suddenly exits, due to hitting the exit button or similar by accident, and then enters only a few seconds after.

Originates from a time when WhiteRaven, a member at www.tuomas-holopainen.com, suddenly exited the Tuomas-chat on the page, and then entered only seconds later, several times on the same day, someday in December 2010. The term has been used by people in the chat room ever since.

Abbreviation: "Raven"
"Alex did a Raven fail, haha", "Sorry, I did a Raven" :p
by Webbah January 16, 2011
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asian fail

Getting a test score below 90%.

With the possibilty of being dissowned by your asian parents.

Usually used by girls in mostly asian schools (eg: mac.rob).
1:
Girls talking:

girl 1 (asian): omg!! i got 88% on my maths test!!!

girl 2(asian): omg!! that's soo bad!!

girl 3(white): *sighs* asian fail...


2:
girl 1(asian):my mum's gonna kill - i got real shit on my test!!!

girl 2(asian): i know!! 88% is my worst score EVER!!! we've sooo failed...
by zabiiy March 4, 2009
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Fractal Fail

A fail at every conceivable level of resolution. Zooming in on any part of the fail reveals just as much fail as the entity of the whole.
Fractal fail comes after quantum fail, but before universal fail.
by Pyroclasm32 February 27, 2009
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