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Posted by ToolkiT on 10-18-2001 02:59 AM:

Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

Hi there,

Recently I received an email where somebody made a comment about the 'goto hell' joke in my sig.
I think this person did not understand the joke (GOTO, like in basic, the ancient programming language) and thought I really ment him/her to go to hell...

Is the joke too geeky and do people get offended by it?
Just wondering... I am not an american and sometimes the culture diffences cause problems....

Please help a silly dutchman who lives down under out in letting me know if I'm stepping over any lines...

If so: my sincere appologies and I'll remove it asap...
if not: keep smiling

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Posted by dampeoples on 10-18-2001 03:04 AM:

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-18-2001 03:33 AM:

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Posted by ToolkiT on 10-18-2001 03:35 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by dick-richardson

Make up your mind will you, which one is it?

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Posted by PDAENVY on 10-18-2001 04:52 AM:

Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
Hi there,

Recently I received an email where somebody made a comment about the 'goto hell' joke in my sig.
I think this person did not understand the joke (GOTO, like in basic, the ancient programming language) and thought I really ment him/her to go to hell...

Is the joke too geeky and do people get offended by it?
Just wondering... I am not an american and sometimes the culture diffences cause problems....

Please help a silly dutchman who lives down under out in letting me know if I'm stepping over any lines...

If so: my sincere appologies and I'll remove it asap...
if not: keep smiling

FWIW, I think if you post places where non-programmers read (like here), you're going to find people who don't get the reference and will be put off.

I'm a developer and I'd classify the joke as merely cute.

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Posted by Toby on 10-18-2001 04:58 AM:

Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
Recently I received an email where somebody made a comment about the 'goto hell' joke in my sig.
I think this person did not understand the joke (GOTO, like in basic, the ancient programming language) and thought I really ment him/her to go to hell...

Well, since you changed the formatting to all caps, it's more clear that it's a BASIC (or some similar language) reference. It makes more sense that way.

quote:
Is the joke too geeky and do people get offended by it?

*shrug* I didn't really get offended by it before, but if I would have the "go to" part would have offended me more. I'm not fond of orders.

quote:
Just wondering... I am not an american and sometimes the culture diffences cause problems....

*shrug* (slight return) I am a USian, and sometimes the culture (and temperament) differences cause problems.

quote:
Please help a silly dutchman who lives down under out in letting me know if I'm stepping over any lines...

Silly dutchman, Trix are for kids.

quote:
If so: my sincere appologies and I'll remove it asap...
if not: keep smiling

Well, I'm not usually much of an external smiler, but I'll continue to smirk ironically on the inside.

Posted by dick-richardson on 10-18-2001 05:16 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT

Make up your mind will you, which one is it?

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Posted by recordond on 10-18-2001 05:40 AM:

Posted by homer on 10-18-2001 05:44 AM:

All of you can go to hell.

(Actually, I thought I was a geek, but I don't get the joke. Yes, I get the GOTO, but what's the funny part?)

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Posted by ToolkiT on 10-18-2001 05:56 AM:

Re: Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by Toby
Well, since you changed the formatting to all caps, it's more clear that it's a BASIC (or some similar language) reference. It makes more sense that way

I agree, somebody pointed it out to me (thanx Michael)
It's a lot clearer this way....

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Posted by ToolkiT on 10-18-2001 06:00 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by homer
All of you can go to hell.

(Actually, I thought I was a geek, but I don't get the joke. Yes, I get the GOTO, but what's the funny part?)

That is probably because you are a DOS-dino and still programm in BASIC

Kidding aside it is merely a word joke about the old Basic programming language (allmost) nobody uses any more...
Must programmers started with Basic so comparing them with it would be an insult to their skill-level...

Make more sense now?

I know it is not the best joke in the world, but I quite liked it...

Another geeky joke (you've probably seen this one before) :
chmod + x /bin/laden

I even say a guy with a t-shirt with this text...

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Posted by PDAENVY on 10-18-2001 02:41 PM:

Another thing that makes it funny: A large portion of C and C++ programmers think goto is a sure sign of spaghetti (bad) programming. (At the very least, it shows a lack of understanding for exception handling). In my office, our code spec says that we are not to use goto in our code without a clear extenuating circumstance, and even then the reason must be well commented in the code.

Nobody has found a reason to use it yet.

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Posted by K. Cannon on 10-18-2001 03:00 PM:

Re: Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by Toby
Silly dutchman, Trix are for kids

HAAHAA!!

..ahem..excuse me...I didn't get the reference either but now I do and it's vaguely amusing. I wasn't offended.

Posted by miradu on 10-18-2001 03:09 PM:

Or you could say that the majority of Basic compilers were the Microsoft ones.. So What's more offensve and worse. MS or hell?

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Posted by Toby on 10-18-2001 04:38 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
Another geeky joke (you've probably seen this one before) :
chmod + x /bin/laden

I even say a guy with a t-shirt with this text...

I've seen 'rm -rf /bin/laden' more, personally.

Posted by volcanopele on 10-18-2001 04:39 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by miradu2000
Or you could say that the majority of Basic compilers were the Microsoft ones.. So What's more offensve and worse. MS or hell?

Hmm... that's a good one.

Personally, I wasn't offended. I very rarely read sigs and when I do, I am smart enough to realize that it not directed to anyone in particular.

Jason

Posted by usonian2001 on 10-18-2001 05:41 PM:

Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by ToolkiT
Recently I received an email where somebody made a comment about the 'goto hell' joke in my sig.

I think people who have nothing better to do than complain about somebody's .sig on an internet discussion board should:

code:
10 REM *** SHUT UP ***
20 GOTO 10

I mean, honestly.

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Posted by ToolkiT on 10-19-2001 03:28 AM:

Re: Re: Is the joke in my sig. bad taste?

quote:
Originally posted by usonian2001
code:
10 REM *** SHUT UP ***
20 GOTO 10

LOL, good one..

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Posted by slotmachine on 10-19-2001 03:54 AM:

TK -

Do not change it. It is extremely clever. You can't appease every prude out there that has had their sense of humor surgically removed.

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Posted by Yorick on 10-19-2001 04:38 AM:

In the day or two I've had to think about it, I keep coming back to my youth where I spent so much time keying in silly BASIC programs from Atari magazines ... entering GOTO hell when the frickin things wouldn't work right because I screwed up a number someplace.

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