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Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed.

[edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

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  >If you're happy and you know it, missing quote
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  >IfYoureHappyAndYouKnowItNotAVerb
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  >If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it, If you're happy and you know it, syntax error
  syntax error

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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post #9

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

The joke would be a little better if you didn't explicitly as it was a lisp. Gotta leave a moment of epiphany for the listener.

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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I know an accounting joke:

An engineer and an accountant are on a train when they pass between two fields of sheep.

"Boy, there are a lot of sheep in those fields." says the engineer.

"There are 1,005" says the accountant.

"How do you know?"

"Well, there are about 1,000 in that field, and there are 5 in the other one."

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At a friend's wedding, I delivered the toast which was a long list of "To X!" items, where X was something special to/for/about the couple. This worked spectacularly well. Including the dead silence & puzzled looks, and seething consternation from the groom, at "To RTFM!" halfway thru.

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A TCP packet walks into a bar, and says to the barman "Hello, I'd like a beer." The barman replies "Hello, you'd like a beer?" "Yes," replies the TCP packet, "I'd like a beer." I'd tell you my UDP packet joke, but I'm not sure you'd get it.

badumm-tish! Lol

Re: What is your best programmer joke?

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post #21

Before I click, just a quick bet with myself this excellent question has been closed. [edit] yep, locked. Thanks NullUserException! Now another quick bet with myself that someone will reply to this comment defending S.O.s repeated closure of interesting questions.

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