Funny loading statements to keep users amused - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182112/funny-loading-statements-to-keep-users-amused
"So I thought it might be quite fun to come up with a batch of 50-or-so funny-looking messages and pick from them randomly so the user never knows what they're going to see. The time they would have spent growing impatient is fruitfully used."