I was leading a startup development team in the late 90's and one of our developers told me that some very inappropriate test data had been sent to IBM to be in

I was leading a startup development team in the late 90's and one of our developers told me that some very inappropriate test data had been sent to IBM to be included in a product demo and burned onto tens of thousands of discs that they would distribute. Eventually it turned out that it was the single word "sheep" - which taken out of the relevant alt.* context was pretty harmless. Talk about a moment when I thought my career had crashed and burned...