I have seen people use this in pseudo-dynamic sql in a beast called SQR. Especially 
when they have code like ...

select ...
union 
select ...
union
select ...
union 
select ... limit to your imagination.

Lot of people think that using 1=1 in absence of a valid limiting condition will let 
them evaluate (and get data from) a union clause where as putting 1=2 will help them 
avoid ...

I don't hate just because I don't like SQR, I don't like it because until CBO 
encounters and evaluates 1=2 clause, it still does all the work of selecting etc and 
that is just a waste.

Raj
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