inspiration: error pages

I'm currently working on a social media campaign for a big company. Naturally I'm going to set up a twitter account, because you know...everybody from Shrek's body double to your Grandma's lapdog is on it. So there i was: mixing and matching colours and background images until this beautiful glossy whale halted my process! That made me realize how important a nice error message is. Usually i would have been supremely annoyed when i encounter a message like this but that smiling shiny flying whale actually brightened up my day. Well done twitter.

Here are some more clever error messages. Enjoy.