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That segfault line cracked me up.

Robby


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, mulhern <mulhern at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

> The humor is implicit.
>
> "all the girls in the CS department" is either the empty set or (just
> possibly) a singleton set.
>
> A venerable old math/logic joke.
>
> But I know that if my advisor were to encounter such a thing he would
> write "Fully apposite?" in the margin, and I would realize it was
> undercutting my message a bit and come up with something better.
>
> What about?
>
> "People hang on his every line; but usually he needs just one."
> "He can write Lisp programs, in C."
> "He once had a seg fault, just to see how it feels."
>
> Stuff like that seems pretty easy to come up with.
>
> - mulhern
>
> On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Justin Zamora wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2012 11:02 PM, "Matt Jadud" <matt at jadud.com> wrote:
> > And, watching a bunch of the videos, they are funny because they are
> *extremely* over the top. "He dates all the girls in the CS department"
> isn't over-the-top, and just came across slightly skeezy.
>
> I tend to agree. I was expecting a joke at this point; something like, "He
> dates all the girls... in parallel."  Without the humor, it feels more like
> a blatant ripoff.
>
> Justin
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