Re: A new idiom -or- I Hate Unless

unless always reminds of the M*A*S*H episode where a bomb lands in camp unexploded. Hawkeye(?) and Radar(?) attempt to diffuse it. It's the old 'which wire to cut first' routine. Radar is reading the defuse instructions to Hawkeye:

Cut the red wire...

*SNIP*

...but first cut the blue wire.

And hilarity ensues. Unless I am trying to write Perl comedy, I have no use for it.

do_it() or do {
  something_else();
  will_do_fine();
};
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Re^2: A new idiom -or- I Hate Unless by mrpeabody (Friar) on Aug 23, 2004 at 22:15 UTC
I remember seeing the same joke (more or less) in King of Queens. Arthur is reading a phone number aloud one digit at a time, and Doug is dialing it. A: Two, D: (dials) A: three, D: (dials) A: nine, D: (dials) A: six, D: (dials) A: -teen... I should have known it had a long history. Re: Perl's "unless", I use it very rarely, and only in the postfix form.	[reply]
Re^2: A new idiom -or- I Hate Unless by ihb (Deacon) on Aug 30, 2004 at 22:03 UTC
I believe it was Hawkeye and Trapper who tried to defuse the propaganda bomb. I think it was colonel Blake who read, with Radar right next to him (as usual). But I'm not quite sure. `ihb` Read argumentation in its context!	[reply] [d/l]