[OT] Humor

[Leon Goldstein]

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.
>
> Michael
>
>
I remember the infamous  "crowbar malfunction" we would get on the 
Burroughs computer that programmed the Pershing 1A missile.
This was caused by inadequate grounding.  Although the soil in Germany 
was usually moist, sometimes it was necessary to moisten the ground 
where the ground rods were pounded into the ground.  Some enterprising 
missileers would pee on the ground rod, sometimes with hilarious (to the 
onlookers, not the crewman) results.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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