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Post your favorite Daily WTF articles here. Or don't, your call.

Today's is... interesting: The Contractor. This quote should serve to epitomize its absurdity: "Their head DBA explained that the difference between a uniqueness constraint and a primary key was semantics, and that audit records and current records should always be stored in the same table so as to keep related data together."

Your Code Might Be Unmaintainable... gives a nice overview of some of the more common offenses against good programming, Jeff Foxworthy style.

Then there is the one I contributed myself: Test No Software Before it Ships!

Some famous ones:
The Brillant Paula Bean
The For-Case Paradigm and the follow-up A Truly Selective Case (and which is so common that it later got formalized as the anti-pattern Loop-switch sequencing)
unstd::toupper
Tossing Your Cookies (this is... er, a favorite of mine I guess you might say, because it is the sort of thing that haunts the nightmares of pentesters everywhere. PHEER TEH SQUEAL KOOKIEZ!)
ITAPPMONROBOT
get_words_from_a_number_which_is_passed_as_a_perimeter_into_this_function
Manual Automation
Happy Merge Day!
The Big Ball of Yarn
OhGodNoSQL
As the World Ternaries
Re-Relational
Almost Counting Past 100

I am indulging in thread necromancy on this topic for two reasons: first, the mention of the 'WAT' monologue, and second, the name of the submitter. I am pretty sure that it isn't the same Brendan, though, as I suspect that had our Brendan found this turd, it would have ended in justifiable homicide.

I think the names are anonymized, but that is pretty funny.

I used to follow tDWTF religiously, but they got pretty ridiculous making up stories for submissions. If I remember correctly they basically take a short anecdote or code snip from a submission, and then they make up this whole huge story around it, which I dunno, got a little much for me.
Also I made the mistake of reading the forums, woof!