It was told to me secondhand, so take that for what it is worth.
When I was in the USN on my second Med deployment, I worked with a DEC mainframe on a special project that was recording all the flight information on our A-7 Corsairs. I was a jet mechanic, but they had me working with a rep from Detroit Diesel Allison, and one of my jobs was to read the flight recorder tapes and plot out the flight on a graph showing RPM, Temp, vibration, throttle position, etc.
All this is De Rigueur now, but back then, warplanes didn’t have it.
Anyway, when working on plotting the tape info on the PDP-11, you had to enter the variables just right, and if you didn’t it would spit back “Error-try again”.
Well, I kept making the error of some kind, and after the fifth error, instead of saying “Error-try again” it said something like “Are you in the Marines or something-try again”
When it errored again, it said “Pathetic-try again” and I just began making deliberate errors until it said “What do you have on the ends of your hands, Sh*t for fingers?”
I thought it was pretty funny, and then it went back to the standard dialog!
the mention of paper tape takes me back... i vaguely recall something about pdp-8s and toggle switches... and fighting off so many hott chick EEs... ok, so what, some of the memories are getting a bit embellished with time, lol...