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First submitted by piman, "The GNU Project opened an interesting programming humor page today (11/20/99). To quote: 'designed to provide some laughs to the working hackers'. Hey, I laughed." Some were "cute" :)
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Perhaps you might be so kind as to please remind me which revision of the standard added those silly C++ comments to C.
// as comments. OTOH, people using // for multi-line comments probably shouldn't be.
C9X added them. See here for the summary of changes, or here for the full standard (section 6.4.9).
I don't think there's anything wrong with
I'd been thinking something along those lines too.
I especially love the qualifier :)
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
Er.. I mean on Slashdot, of course....
Er, um, technically speaking, unzip isn't very Unixy, more DOSlike. Even the Unix ports act very non-Unix-like in their noisiness. But of course, it wouldn't be as funny without it.
This definitely does NOT belong on an FSF page, and can only hurt their cause.
(That bad, bad, Gingrich is against "rights for gays!" To paraphrase Linda Bowles, one of my favorite columnists, "Could someone please explain to me why being confused about which end of a penis one belongs on should confer any special rights on the confused party?" Gingrich's position is eminently reasonable here, as in most (not all) other cases...)
"The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last
The Gingrinch and Clintons now shared the same plight
Whatever they'd do, they could not do it right.
"Folks hate you," said Bill, "once you land in D.C.
But I've got a plan: Let us bond, you and me.
We'll work as a team, yes! That's my advice!
We'll listen and nod and make NICE NICE NICE!"
The Prez put his hand out, they hugged on the ledge...
And then that old Gingrinch pushed Bill off the edge LOL!
Perhaps we should put dates on them? As you say, most of these are very old. We collected them mostly from various GNU disks. Some of it dates more than 10 years back. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this dates back to when prep.ai.mit.edu was a VAX 11/750. For those of you interested in a little history; prep was (in the early 1980's) a VAX 11/750 designed to to run a large plotter for VLSI plots. It only needed to do this a few days ever year, so rms "adopted" the spare cycles for GNU work. People generally thought that RMS was doing GNU Emacs work on it, which was true of course and accounted for the disk space used, but the machine also had all other GNU material and users on it.
What's the license obligations if i want to tell someone else these jokes? What if i want to make a small modification ?
"Historically, the Church has a reputation as an aggressive competitor, leading crusades to pressure people to upgrade to Catholicism, and entering into exclusive licensing arrangements in various kingdoms whereby all subjects were instilled with Catholicism, whether or not they planned to use it..."
priceless.
What, no "unsigned short suicide_note" ?
I guess either
1) God doesn't have a very good DNA compiler
or
2) God decided to make DNA an interpreted language!
Maybe I'm having an off day, but is this funny?
/usr/lib.
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auto accident;
register voters;
static electricity;
struct by_lightning;
-
hahah, my sides...help
Sure I've seen most of this before....and it was just as stale then... I mean come on, a page of smileys?!
The GPL'd human code - muhaha, sedate me.
Anagrams...jesus, I need to sit down...
This is funny. So is this. In fact, most of attrition's gallery is.
But the GNU humour page?! Come on... I laughed harder when I rm -rf'd
Is it so shameful?? What of the redneck jokes of a comptuer??
:-)
:-)
You know u're a redneck if your computer has a gun rack... etc...
Why not look at it as a joke about the differences of our many unique cultures, not of Race... Nowhere else in the world have I seen so many people get so pissy about race...
I'm sorry if this sounds like a flame, but I can't stand it when people say that we must take down this and that because it is "offensive" or is "derogitory to a race" or "racist." No it's CENSORSHIP!
Hey I'm a white boy, but I don't mind jokes being made about the fact that I can't dance, can't play sports, and don't attract the ladies as well as people of other cultures.... So what, I'll laugh with you!
Hmmm maybe I have discovered a way to cook ala slashdot...
Slashdot Steak:
One juicy steak.
BBQ or prefered maranade sauce...
place steak on monitor..
post a flame on slashdot
apply maranade to steak
post a rebuttal flame to the earlier responces to the flame you had ealier.
apply more maranade
keep tending to the flames... making sure the steak is evenly cooked to the desired level..
remove from monitor, and serve..
---- Fight to protect your right to keep and arm bears! ummmm... ya I think that's right....
float ing_in_a_tin_can
char broiled
int o
...reading geeky humor :)
My personal favorite is the obscure MPW compiler messages: note the secret The WHO reference! http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/PR- MPW.html
"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"
"This array has no size, and that's bad"
"Call me paranoid but finding `/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious"
"Huh ?"
(and many more)
As much as I respect RMS for what he's done for the free software community, every time I hear that free software song, I do laugh. But it's a mean kind of laugh---I'm laughing _at_ him. That song is really ridiculous.
At the end, people clap for him, so I assume this was a live "performance". Where was this song originally sang?
Sigh. It's been said already, but this is humor.
Would you also be protesting the defamation involved in the valley girl, elmer fudd, redneck, or B1FF text filters? They aren't very different. If you would, then you have no sense of humor. If you wouldn't, then you are a racist.
Or, rather, just to make sure you understand:
WouLD u @l5O b PRO+E5tING tHe DEF@M@zhun INVOLved 1n tHE v@LeY +oDAl BABE, ElMur fudD, RednecK, Or B1Ff +eXt fILtur5?!?1?!?
+hEY AReN+ tOt@LLy difFuRent, 1F u wOuLD, +heN u GO+ no 5En5E uv HuMOR!
iF u wouLDn+, tHeN u r A r@CI5+,
What you should be protesting is the dehumanizing force that is the computer, able to translate plain English into mechanically incomprehensible gibberish that some people still manage to find funny, for no apparent reason. (Slap mah fro!)
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pb Reply or e-mail rather than vaguely moderate.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Sex the Unix way: # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep
Secondly, perhaps you might be so kind as to please remind me which revision of the standard added those silly C++ comments to C. I must have missed it.
IMO, some *much* better computer humor:
http://packetstorm.securify.com/unix-hu mor/
bash-2.02$ %blow
bash: fg: %blow: no such job
bash-2.02$
If you think you know what the hell is really going on you're probably full of shit.
If you think you know what the hell is really going on you're probably full of shit.
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