Failwhale definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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When MUNI has its daily failwhale, remember - as much as we can blame the Board of Supervisors (and their inimitable stupidity) and Our Mayor, the fact that San Franciscans continue to give multi-year terms to legislators that don't give a gosh-darn about stable funding for mass transit in our own city means we have no one to blame but ourselves.

—The N-Judah Chronicles

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Fri Apr 03 07: 49: 54 +0000 2009 abates1337: we all get free gmail failwhale addresses about 10 hours ago — Chris Pirillo
Though, given Twitters failwhale record, I'm going to bet the problem is Twitter. — The Changelog
When MUNI has its daily failwhale, remember - as much as we can blame the Board of Supervisors (and their inimitable stupidity) and Our Mayor, the fact that San Franciscans continue to give multi-year terms to legislators that don't give a gosh-darn about stable funding for mass transit in our own city means we have no one to blame but ourselves. — The N-Judah Chronicles
She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...] - STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites. — Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
She'll most likely send her first tweet on the air, and then the failwhale will haunt us [...] — Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now