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Smokey:
Post up your favorite app note and data sheet humor.  Writing technical documents can get pretty tedious so it always makes me smile when I see that an author tossed in something funny.

Lots of you will already know about the humor of Jim Williams:
https://www.edn.com/Pdf/ViewPdf?contentItemId=4411017

Here are another couple examples I've stumbled upon:

From "Stability analysis of voltage-feedback opamps"
http://www.ti.com/lit/an/sloa020a/sloa020a.pdf
"When the loop gain approaches minus one, or to express it mathematically 1∠180°, equation 5 approaches infinity because 1/0⇒∞. The circuit output heads for infinity as fast as it can using the equation of a straight line.  If the output were not energy limited, the circuit would explode the world, but it is energy limited by the power supplies so the world stays intact."

From "AN1375, See What You Can Do with CTMU - Microchip Technology"
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/appnotes/ctmu%2001375a.pdf
Two of the "really complex applications" for this part are "Solving World Hunger" and "Bring About World Peace"

Bassman59:
I wish I could find it online, no luck so far, but I remember a colleague at a long-ago job had a data sheet for a National Semiconductor "Odor-I/O" device tacked onto his wall. It was done up in the exact style of an NS data sheet, totally brilliant.

CatalinaWOW:
Sometimes they don't just slip it in, it is the whole thing.

http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf

https://www.edn.com/electronics-products/electronic-product-reviews/reader-s-choice-2015/4439097/Zener-enhanced-Dark-Emitting-Diodes--ZeDEDs--deliver-10X-more-Dark-Flux-Watt

And Alibaba is willing to sell you anything.

Dark Emitting Diodes - Alibaba

https://www.alibaba.com › Electronic Components & Supplies › diode › emiter diode
26 products - Alibaba.com offers 26 dark emitting diodes products. About 11% of these are diodes. A wide variety of dark emitting diodes options are available to ...

Cyberdragon:
Page 57 ;D

http://bama.edebris.com/download/tek/7a26/tek-7a26.pdf

Edit: yes that's manual humor, but it counts!

bd139:
Signetics WOM: http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf

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