I'm reminded of a high school programming class where a project partner named variables with the most crude and lewd words he could imagine. Not that I was prudish, but he unsurprisingly never remembered what "butts" was for and somehow never figured out why he kept getting confused by his own code.
For school once I had to write a program called "Poetry Writer". Basically it would take input text, build a linked list(taking in account proceeding and following words) with for each word and output a randomized version of the poem.
I HAD to of course name all of my variables as poets and poems.
So you have "Edgar_Allen gets new The_Road_Not_Taken", all was fine during my tests but for some reason it did not interface well with the code provided by the teacher to do the actual input so I had to take it to the TA for help.
I then learnt why descriptive names, not just comments are helpful. Although, the TA was impressed by my selections XD
