okay, we were doing an intranet site for a client, nice guy and all, he wanted us to insert a paragraph of text... 'sure, can you email it to us?' 'no problem!' the next day we get a 650KB email. he had scanned a fax of one paragraph of text at 300dpi and sent it uncompressed as an attachment. marvellous. and it was still mostly illegible, being a crappy fax... we had to laugh.…

yep, definitely the best thread ever! then there was the client (same company) who was, like, totally obsessed with the idea that all the links on the site should be jigsaw-piece shaped buttons. she'd done a one-day html course (shudder). and she ALWAYS called the @ symbol an 'ampersand' : "can we maybe have a big chrome spinning ampersand for the email link? because people associate the ampersand with the web, don't they?" bwah-aha-hah!…