Collection of Lame Jokes

[jbriggs444]

I once intended to do ”rm -rf *~” in a project folder about a week before it was to go on the arXiv. Only problem: I managed to hit enter before ~ …

I once did a "$ delete [...]*.*;*" under VAX/VMS while accidentally having my working directory at the top of the file system. This is almost the same command -- a recursive removal of everything at or below the working directory. As I recall, I was fortunate to do it under version 2.5 where the command was bugged so that the recursive removal did not take place. I think it aborted at the first file protection violation rather then proceeding to the next file as it should have.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Mayhem]

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People who adhere to this expiration date have the same rights as us.

 

[phinds]

People who adhere to this expiration date have the same rights as us.

??? What does that even mean?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

??? What does that even mean?

He is referring to the terms of the SALT treaty.

 

[Orodruin]

 

[jtbell]

What language do turkeys speak?

Gobbledygook.

 

[berkeman]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[WWGD]

Dr Kevorkian, a renowned pianist, put out an album recently: " Dr Kevorkian: Unplugged".

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Borg]

In the movie Frozen, Princess Elsa sang icy arias in icy areas.

 

[berkeman]

 

[jtbell]

Iron Man stops the bad guys. Aluminum Man foils them.

 

[jtbell]

Curses, foiled again!

 

[Orodruin]

In the movie Frozen, Princess Elsa sang icy arias in icy areas.

Oh, Let it go!, will you?

 

[WWGD]

In the movie Frozen, Princess Elsa sang icy arias in icy areas.

Icy what you did there.

 

[phinds]

 

[nuuskur]

 

[Ibix]

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I'll sea if I can think of anything.

 

[Orodruin]

I'll sea if I can think of anything.

Another good question is why the North American cities are not as far north. I don’t really know but I am sure I can stream a good documentary about it.

 

[phinds]

Another good question is why the North American cities are not as far north.

Canada goes to bed early

 

[fresh_42]

 

[DrGreg]

They almost all speak English, too.

 

[Orodruin]

They almost all speak English, too.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_translator

 

[fresh_42]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Universal_translator

That came - other than the babel fish who was there from the beginning - very late in spin-offs.

 

[Ibix]

That came - other than the babel fish who was there from the beginning - very late in spin-offs.

No, it appears in the original series - there's a photo of the prop at Memory Alpha.

 

[Orodruin]

 

[dwarde]

 

[berkeman]

 

[Orodruin]

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Nobody would ever know why Buster became canicidal … or what happened to the rest of his classmates.

 

[berkeman]

canicidial

TIL a new word. A weird word, but a word.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Nobody would ever know why Buster became canicidial … or what happened to the rest of his classmates.

How long have you been waiting to use that word?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

TIL a new word. A weird word, but a word.

That reminds me of the dog suicide bridge.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/scotland-overtoun-bridge-dog-suicide.html

 

[fresh_42]

How long have you been waiting to use that word?

Shouldn't it better be: "How long have you been waiting to create that word?"?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Shouldn't it better be: "How long have you been waiting to create that word?"?

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https://www.yourdictionary.com/canicide

 

[Orodruin]

My bad, should be canicidal not canicidial. Fixed typo.

As for how long … about two minutes. I started typing homicidal and thought “that’s not right …”

 

[davenn]

 

[Tom.G]

But it is in:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canicide
Which claims it is also in French and Malagasy (new language for me)

 

[jtbell]

Speaking of dogs, while I was out walking yesterday I saw one doing its business at a stop-sign. I remarked to its owner, "Your dog must think 'stop' means 'go'."

 

[nuuskur]

Homicide, canicide, felicide?

 

[Tom.G]

Homicide, canicide, felicide?

Infanticide, suicide?

 

[Orodruin]

Infanticide, suicide?

Genocide, regicide, patricide, matricide, fratricide, etc

See also ”Derived terms” on https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-cide#English

 

[dwarde]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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A dog will love any good master.

But a cat's love has to be earned.

 

[Swamp Thing]

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"... but that doesn't mean I don't expect you to grovel before me".

.

 

[phinds]

What an appropriately name porta-potty

 

[Ivan Seeking]

What an appropriately name porta-potty
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For brownian motion.

 

[jtbell]

I once saw a porta-potty labeled "Here's Johnny!".

 

[DaveC426913]

"We're #1 in the #2 business!"

"Born in Barrie. Raised everywhere!"