<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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><div><br></div><div>- mulhern</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Justin Zamora wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr"><br> On Dec 19, 2012 11:02 PM, "Matt Jadud" <<a href="mailto:matt@jadud.com">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> </p> _____________________<br>  PLT Educators list:<br>  <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/plt-edu">http://lists.racket-lang.org/plt-edu</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>