That segfault line cracked me up. Robby
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, mulhern <mulh...@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" <m...@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 > _____________________ > > PLT Educators list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/plt-edu > > > > _____________________ > PLT Educators list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/plt-edu > >
____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
