<div dir="ltr">That segfault line cracked me up.<div><br></div><div>Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, mulhern <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mulhern@cs.wisc.edu" target="_blank">mulhern@cs.wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">The humor is implicit.<div><br></div><div>"all the girls in the CS department" is either the empty set or (just possibly) a singleton set.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A venerable old math/logic joke.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What about?</div><div><br></div><div>"People hang on his every line; but usually he needs just one."</div><div>"He can write Lisp programs, in C."</div><div>"He once had a seg fault, just to see how it feels."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Stuff like that seems pretty easy to come up with.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- mulhern</div></font></span><div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Justin Zamora wrote:</div>
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On Dec 19, 2012 11:02 PM, "Matt Jadud" <<a href="mailto:matt@jadud.com" target="_blank">matt@jadud.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p><p dir="ltr">Justin<br>
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