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bandy
Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing and shouldn't be in the profession.
caruana
really? i think you might be mistaking exception logging for quick debug lines, like when a certain line isn't being hit for some reason and you just want to quickly know if it does hit. you would clearly delete these quick messages before checking in. No need to get so dramatic ...
bandy
Really. Identical error and debugging messages that might as well have all said "Foo!" across a 300,000+ LOC subsystem.
NoodleIncident
herp, derp, flurp, and slurp are immensely useful words for one-off variables in an interactive interpreter.
RossM
In PHP I tend to do something like:

    dd(__DIR__.'/'.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__);
Which prints out the current script and line, and then stops execution (where dd is var_dump+exit).
forgottenpass 

    "\x1B[1;36;40m" "\n" "\x1B[0;37;40m"
I keep a file sitting around with versions for different colors/languages.
splawn
Thank you for this idea! My worst days will now be in color from now on. :)
hiharryhere
Any chance you could chuck those on a gist? Sounds mighty handy!
jweather
"this should never happen" and/or "how did you get here?"