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Why do people say "it was in the last place I looked"? Presumably, when you've found something, you don't continue looking for it so, by definition, it will be the last place you looked.
That's all - you can go back to your lives now.
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Last time I though of that I agree with you! ^^
But come to think of it now, I reckon it kind of imply those who said that have a fuzzy feeling that there might be a better / new way...
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Or "where did you last have it?", when you've lost something!
If I knew that it wouldn't be lost now would it! 
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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Unless someone moved it without your knowledge...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I have pondered this myself and some times it is the last place as I am resigned to no more looking after I look in ...
However you do quit after you find it so it is the last place.
If I had a live I would go back to it now....
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This is why I always recommend that people start searching in the last place first. Behind the fridge is good, because that is always the last place people think of to look.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: when you've found something, you don't continue looking for it
I generally do continue looking because I like to be thorough.
BDF
I often make very large prints from unexposed film, and every one of them turns out to be a picture of myself as I once dreamed I would be.
-- BillWoodruff
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When searching something, some people search possible places in decreasing order of probability of finding the item (weighted by distance), to minimze the total time spent on searching.
Thus, "last place searched" is a shorthand for "the least likely place I could think of".
I understand that such planning might be a foreign concept for software developers. 
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I remember times where I said that I would try one more place--the last ditch effort, so to speak. Some of those times, I still didn't find the item and gave up. (In one case, I recall the item falling into a box. I didn't need it and told myself I'd get it later. Yet later, the item wasn't to be found. I ended up buying a new one on eBay. During my divorce, my [soon to be] ex and I repacked all the boxes. That item never showed up, but we did find a formerly lost TV remote!)
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I always assumed it was meant to be humorous - but some folk evidently are humour challenged.
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