[OT] Humor
James McDonald
james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
Sun Nov 23 12:32:29 PST 2008
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:10 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.
>
Weird Al: White and Nerdy. It's all about the Pentiums
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