humour

Seen in one of our internal mailing list

> Hypothesis: There's a correlation between not sucking at one's job and being

professional, observant, considerate and honest.

Disproved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

Umm - is this the message we want to send to future engineers?

Small list of stuff everyone thinks is cool, but I did not find them worth the price all the electrons had to pay

• Second life - seriously people, what is so great about it that you are paying real world money for virtual stuff.
• A-list Bloggers - some of them are a bunch of pretentious idiots. Enough said.
• Orkut

Seen on one of the mailing lists that I am on

I've heard it said - and find this to be true in enough cases to be useful as a rough guide - that men often try to stimulate conversation by disagreement, while women generally do the opposite (this provides a highly amusing view of teenagers' conversations involving the apposite sex, which tend to illustrate this, or something very close to it.) If so, then the Net often appears to be full of 12-year-old boys, stoned out of their minds on their brand-new experience with testosterone and desperate to be noticed.

"friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ear" translated to Doglas Adams fan-speak "Friends, afdaniains, furry creatures. Lend me your babelfish." - seen in alt.fan.douglas-adams newsgroup (afd) afdaniains refers to the regular posters of afd.

Alternative expansions for IRC (as seen in the #phpc@irc.freenode.net)

Tetraboy :  Internet Relax Chat
lig           : Instant Resource chat 

Ramki explaing some subtle points. However, just think of it as a demo of b**b-catching and laugh