Tag: humor

You Knew It Would Happen Someday

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“Allegedly reacting to some sort of hallucinogenic fever dream following an overlong bubble bath during which he reportedly sputtered lots of motorboat noises and ate one too many purple crayons, President Bush today made the stunning yet somehow entirely understandable announcement that all Republicans in his administration are hereby officially excused from any and all crimes they have committed, are in the process of committing, are planning to commit, or even merely fantasize about committing”

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zarchasmpgmr Would Appreciate This…

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The Rime of the Ancyent Programmer

There was an ancyent programmer,
a hacker proud was he,
and though well past his prime, he knew
a thing or two, or three.

His hair was in a ponytail,
his bushy beard gone gray,
his face was lined by years of toil,
and this he had to say:

My life has been a long strange trip,
so many things I have seen:
technologies both good and bad
and all spots in between.

I started out, now long ago,
on mainframe IBMs,
and many clever programs wrote;
some of them truly gems.

Those were such very diff ’rent times.
And coding then was tough.
No screens or mice (things now so nice),
I tell you it was rough.

The 80-column card was king,
and cryptic JCL.
You wrote some code, it ran “batch mode.”
I tell you it was hell.

        Assembler programs I did write,
and complex FORTRAN IV,
but COBOL I refused to learn,
being told it was a bore.

Then came the days of minis, Oh!
My own machine, what joy!
A PDP from DEC I had;
it was indeed a marv’lous toy.

The toggle switches I did use,
with blinding speed I would
machine code programs enter in,
as all true hackers could.

Boot loader ROMs from diodes made,
and home-built D to As.
Both soft and hard ware I’d work on.
Those were such wond’rous days.

So eight-inch floppies, paper tapes,
two-Mbyte DEC packs,
magnetic, nine-track, half-inch reels,
were storage for my hacks.

Around that time it was I played
my first computer game.
“Colossal Caves” some did it call,
but “ADVENT” its true name.

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…

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[…or should I title this, “I’ve got a luverly bunch of Coconuts”?]

From Playbill:

In a promotional event for the West End production of Monty Python’s Spamalot, the city of London plans to break the Guinness world record for the “World’s Largest Coconut Orchestra” on April 23. The city hopes at least 2,000 people will come to Trafalgar Square, where cast members from Spamalot will lead the audience in a “clip-clop” coconut clap in time to the famed Monty Python song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” which is in the show. Coconuts were provided, organizers said. The evening will end with a screening of “Holy Grail.”

Here’s a not-too-good video of the event:


How did it turn out? According to MayorWatch, they broke the record with 5,567 people.

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And You Think You Have A Long Wait…

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I heard this on KFWB driving home, and just had to look it up:

A confused cockatoo at a wildlife sanctuary has spent a fortnight trying to hatch a bowl of chocolate eggs. Pippa has been protecting the chocolates at Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary since she was taken outside and saw them on a table. Her owner, Geoff Grewcock, said: “She went straight over, climbed on the creme eggs and that was it. She thinks they’re her eggs. Until she clicks they’re not real eggs, we’ll just leave her there.” The 17-year-old cockatoo, who has been at the sanctuary for about four years, is expected to live until the age of 70.

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