Most amusing function / method / procedure names

Question

Every so often while writing code you do a double take at the function you just made and realise you've just created a very stupid function name! It might be descriptive and accurate, but totally inappropriate, or it might be completely off topic due to a mind warp!

What are the best, funniest, strangest or stupidest function or code names that you've seen, or have written yourself?

I'll post my contibutions in a seperate answer :).

Edit: Similar to: what is the worst class/variable/function name you have ever encountered

Answer 1

While writing some C# using a stack I found I actually needed to acess both ends. I hurridly wrote myself a destack (instead of the sendible option of using a dequeue or whatever) - which led to my favorite method names I've yet to write:

Push();
Pop();

and

Peek();

where complemented with:

PushBottom();
PopBottom(); //my favorite!

and

PeekBottom(); //:D.

What are yours?

Answer 2

The worst was a SQL Column actually named

NotActive bit

We immediately made a derived column, "Active".

Answer 3

When I was at a financial data delivery company in the early to mid 90s we were migrating from 16 bit application to 32 bit (for Windows). The previous version was 2.16 (or "two-sixteen")

We had to do some odd gyrations in the code to keep the app from screwing up after an install over the old version. (the distribution mechanism was amazing - this was before the internet was used widely and the company had its own network infrastructure to its clients and during off hours new software versions were pushed down to PCs - it was a really great mechanism back then...)

the funciton name was

Get216OutOfShit()

Another one was KillTheWabbit()

the first could be argued to be a valid name, but the other one was horrible. I was not the author - I had just joined the company.

Answer 4

I like to use SoylentGreen as an enum value to indicate the most serious level of something...

public enum Severity
{
  None,
  Low,
  Medium,
  High,
  SoylentGreen
}

Answer 5

When I was working on a testing framework there was an SQL table named TestCycle with a column named is_cyclic which was a boolean. Just about everybody was asking the obvious questions about it.

Answer 6

a website i visited a while back failed to load with a javascript error; when i looked at the source, the body onload event was calling a function named "JoshIsCool", which of course was failing (I forget why).

Josh was apparently too cool to test his function in IE6 [years ago, sorry for the confusion]

Answer 7

Not a method call but we have a old ASP 2.0 application here where I work, and there is a comment above a method called GenerateReport that says

'Do not uncomment this line or the application will break

Answer 8

Definitely

umount

I found it confusing at the beginning, and now i've to smile about it :p They unmounted the n :)

Answer 9

In a system I once built, Companies could have associated suppliers.

Of course, in the Company object, there was a collection of associated suppliers:

public List<Supplier> AssSuppliers
{
}

I thought I was funny the day I wrote that.

Answer 10

I once saw a C++ function called "setPuedeMolestar". In spanish, it means something like "setCanAnnoy". Also, I saw a debug trace that simply said "NADA" (nothing). Both were from the same developer. Luckily for all of us, he was fired.