How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
However many are trying to avoid tech reviewing the documentation.
t sorry, the cranky editor tag doesn't close
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Mar 18, 2009 11:19:56 am PDT #11389 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
lisah - Mar 18, 2009 11:22:26 am PDT #11390 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
ahahahahah, Jilli! I was trying to work out a tech writer-related one. That's perfect! (Although, I have to say, my one programmer I work with most here is fantastic about turning around his doc edits.)
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2009 11:24:46 am PDT #11391 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The other Irish joke I remember:
It's Sunday Mass, and the priest, known for his fire and brimstone homilies, is in fine form.
"On the day of judgement, God will render his decisions on you all! And he will decide if you will go to Heaven or to Hell! If you go to Heaven, he will take you to his bosom and there will be bliss ever after. But if you are wicked, he will send you to Hell. And there will be a great weeping, and a great wailing, and a terrible, horrible gnashing of the teeth!"
At this point, a little old lady in the congregation stands up, and says to the priest, "But, Father! I haven't got any teeth!"
He glares down at her and says, "Teeth will be provided!!!"
Atropa - Mar 18, 2009 11:25:07 am PDT #11392 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
ahahahahah, Jilli! I was trying to work out a tech writer-related one. That's perfect!
I'm not biased by the fact that I'm currently waiting on something like 200 topics to come back from tech review, oh no. Not at all.
Calli - Mar 18, 2009 11:27:34 am PDT #11393 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
"Teeth will be provided!!!"
Bwah!
aurelia - Mar 18, 2009 11:30:42 am PDT #11394 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I hadn't checked in on Margaret and Helen in quite a while. [link] Looks like Helen is taking on Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter
Jesse - Mar 18, 2009 11:32:24 am PDT #11395 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's funny (not so much funny-ha ha) about that joke, and I find to be true of most "ethnic" jokes, is that it's not actually an Irish joke -- it's just a no-teeth joke. Any old lady can have a fire-and-brimstone preacher and no teeth! (Any Christian old lady, at least...)
Kathy A - Mar 18, 2009 11:34:58 am PDT #11396 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The way I heard it, and the way I always tell it, is complete with Irish accents. It's fun to say "But, Father! I don't have any teeth!" as "But Faaahhhther! I don' haaahhhve any taaayth!"
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2009 11:35:28 am PDT #11397 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I hadn't checked in on Margaret and Helen in quite a while.
That is a funny blog. My wife e-mails me choice posts every once and a while.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2009 11:40:24 am PDT #11398 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I followed her summary of Ann Coulter's latest ... book? rant? ... and she had fun with it. Not the actual reading, but with the pointing and laughing.