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Re^4: Does Humour Belong in Programming?

by Athanasius (Archbishop)
on Oct 05, 2015 at 09:31 UTC ( [id://1143794]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Does Humor Belong in Programming?
in thread Does Humor Belong in Programming?

Meta? Did someone mention metahumour?

  • I’ve never meta-joke I didn’t like.1
  • A priest, a rabbi and a leprechaun walk into a bar. The leprechaun looks around and says, “Saints preserve us! I’m in the wrong joke!” 1
  • “The sources of quotes found on the internet are not always reliable.” — Abraham Lincoln.3; cf. 2
  • Condemn ambiguity and other stuff.3
  • Today’s Horoscope: “You are easily influenced by what you read and have the ability to make vague sentences somehow applicable to your own existence.” 1
  • There are three things an engineer has to master: 1. Estimation 3. Interpolation.3
  • To Joanna:
    My brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or interferes, asks nothing and endures all, and writes my dedications.
    — A.P. Malvino, Electronic Principles (1993)2,4
  • xkcd: Hofstadter
  • And now, Google for recursion (“Did you mean ...”)

References
1Wikipedia: Meta-joke
2SELF-REFERENCE JOKES: A COLLECTION
3Quora: What is the most self-referential joke ever?
4Tal Cohen’s Bookshelf: Book In-Jokes

SCNR :-)

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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