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I used to work for an education company that developed legacy financial and student management systems for local area school districts.  Anyway, we had a superintendent of a large school district argue with us about creating a button that would update each computer in his school district.  He wanted that "majic" button that would do whatever he wanted it to do at the moment and he knew it was possible because he saw it in a movie.  I have no idea how he ever got promoted from teacher to principal to superintendent with intelligence like that.

reminds me of two events that happened to me in my development career.
The first involved a warehousing system. The manager came to me and asked if I could install a "Are you sure" form because the workers were deleting entries and not making sure what was being deleted. Then afterwords they would discover it was the wrong item. After the form was included (about 2 weeks later) she came to me again and said, "My people are not checking to be sure before they click on the OK. So, could you put in another form that says, "Are you REALLY sure?".
The other involved a Navy Officer while I was a Systems Administrator. He asked me if I could write a program to do the job of a Systems Administrator...I had to laugh and told him, "Sorry, you're stuck with me!"

I thought life was a movie. You mean everything in a movie isn't real? lol.