“I Found a Dead Cat!”

A few months ago I was having a conversation with some of the developers on my team because I was frustrated that some previous developers commented out code instead of deleting it even though they had source control. It was so ridiculous to the point where 30% of the classes were commented out. My co-worker made a comment that some of the previous developers were hoarders of code similar to the TV show Hoarders. I then questioned when we would find the dead cat in the code since more often than not dead cats are found on the TV show. So yesterday when I was going through some code, about a month after our conversation, I found this lovely commented out code! I calmly informed my co-workers that I actually found a dead cat. The look on the people’s faces that were not part of the earlier conversation was priceless.