Geek Jokes

[marshalla]

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

[matt9k]

[aclivity]

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

That has reached new depths of geekiness, and also groan inducing corniness at the same time. Not to mention the awful grammar.

[Famous Graham]

Jacobyte said:

spandexx said:

XKCD Again:

That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

You'll probably like the maps of online social interaction then..

2007 :



http://xkcd.com/256/ if you want to see it larger.

2010 :



http://xkcd.com/802/

[Jacobyte]

Famous Graham said:

You'll probably like the maps of online social interaction then..

Not bad, but nowhere near as good. My analytical mind works just like those timelines (but in a weird 4D kind of way), so I can relate to them more.

Staying on topic:

[JonRB]

[tribbles]

^^^ The geek in me didn't read what she said the first time, and I guessed it was a diode based on the pictures.

[james_tigerwoods]

JonRB said:

I don't get it

[GetCarter]

I'm no geek but diodes only work one way IIRC, so only one is saying sorry (she choosing the right end)

Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 20th January 13:42

[Munter]

james_tigerwoods said:

JonRB said:

I don't get it

I think.

Power only flows one way through a diode. So in this case he has no power over her. While her power flows through the diode and he's affected. Think of it as a marriage licence.

[JonRB]

GetCarter said:

I'm no geek but diodes only work one way IIRC, so only one is saying sorry

Yup. He's said he's hurt and needs an apology, she says the same. Only because of the diode he's the only one saying sorry because she didn't receive (or want to receive) his expression of hurt.

Sadly I've been there in a relationship which is why that cartoon works for me.

Edit:

Munter said:

Power only flows one way through a diode. So in this case he has no power over her. While her power flows through the diode and he's affected.

More like she has no empathy towards him rather than he has no power over her. Well, that's how I interpret it.

Edited by JonRB on Thursday 20th January 13:46

[Alex@POD]

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

[jamieboy]

Alex@POD said:

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

You + dead can read hex, so deae can already read hex before you teach your buddy.

[marshalla]

jamieboy said:

Alex@POD said:

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

You + dead can read hex, so deae can already read hex before you teach your buddy.

Correct - if he teaches 2 buddies (assuming he has two buddies) it will be deb0 who can read hex.

[Alex@POD]

jamieboy said:

Alex@POD said:

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

You + dead can read hex, so deae can already read hex before you teach your buddy.

I blame being on my work break and therefore rushing through it.

[Dan_1981]

A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are shipwrecked on a desert island. Starving, they find a case of canned pork and beans on the beach, but they have no can opener. So, they hold a symposium on how to open the cans. The physicist goes first:

"I've devised a physical solution. We find a pointed rock and propel it at the lid of the can at, say, 25 meters per second --"

The chemist breaks in:

"No, I have a chemical solution: we heat the molecules of the contents to over 100 degrees Centigrade until the pressure builds to --"

The economist, condescension dripping from his voice, interrupts:

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, I have a much more elegant solution. Assume we have a can opener..."

[mrmr96]

marshalla said:

jamieboy said:

Alex@POD said:

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

You + dead can read hex, so deae can already read hex before you teach your buddy.

Correct - if he teaches 2 buddies (assuming he has two buddies) it will be deb0 who can read hex.

I still don't get it.

(I guess this is like the "10" binary joke?)

[spyder dryver]

mrmr96 said:

marshalla said:

jamieboy said:

Alex@POD said:

marshalla said:

Q: Let's say only you and dead people can read hex. If you teach your buddy how to read hex also, what do you all have in common?

A: You are all deaf.

I'm prepared to be ridiculed, but shouldn't that be deae? Or should he not teach 2 buddies?

You + dead can read hex, so deae can already read hex before you teach your buddy.

Correct - if he teaches 2 buddies (assuming he has two buddies) it will be deb0 who can read hex.

I still don't get it.

(I guess this is like the "10" binary joke?)

Yes. In a base sort of way.

[JonRB]

mrmr96 said:

I still don't get it.

(I guess this is like the "10" binary joke?)

It's hexadecimal. Base 16.

"Normal" counting is Base 10 which goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
"Hexadecimal" goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10

10 in hexadecimal is 16 in "normal" (or decimal).

So "dead" in the joke is 57,005.

Edited by JonRB on Friday 21st January 16:38

[havoc]

spyder dryver said:

mrmr96 said:

I still don't get it.

(I guess this is like the "10" binary joke?)

Yes. In a base sort of way.

Ba-doom tish!



Did anyone do the "two atoms in a bar" joke yet - can't be bothered to search all 20+ pages...