[OT] Humor
Michael Hipp
Michael at hipp.com
Sat Nov 22 18:10:27 PST 2008
Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>>> This is probably old news to long-time Debian fans, but:
>>>
>>> $ apt-get moo
>> And who said that developers have no sense of humor.
>
> I've seen humerous comments as long at I've been doing computers, which is
> almost 43 years now.
>
> On the Burroughs large systems, the master fork controller was called the
> MotherForker. There were comments in MCP such as shove it up the stack and
> hold on.
>
> The Tandy Xenix kernal hat the infamous she's sucking mud again comment
> when it paniced.
I've been a developer off and on for most of my adult life. I'm pretty sure a
sense of humor is some a developer has to have - even if it's a pretty dry and
nerdy one.
Michael
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