Geek Jokes

[98elise]

glenrobbo said:

Remember also that Earth is the only planet that is not a sphere...

It's actually an oblate spheroid but I assume all planets are?

[havoc]

98elise said:

glenrobbo said:

Remember also that Earth is the only planet that is not a sphere...

It's actually an oblate spheroid but I assume all planets are?

Pretty much.

Depends on density vs rotation speed (broadly), which collectively means Saturn is flatter / fatter than the others in our system.

[MartG]

Why the Ewoks are now extinct

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html?fbclid...

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[Mammasaid]

MartG said:

so, so true.....

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[Caruso]

MartG said:

It's still our corporate standard.

Still, it's only a matter of weeks before I can trot out my IE Advent Calendar joke.

"I've got one of those Microsoft IE Advent calendars...It's December 5th and the first window has just opened."

[TwigtheWonderkid]

It's a little known fact that after the war, Maginot went into car park barrier design.

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[PixelpeepS3]

Nimby said:

Abends were System/370 OS/VS1 and MVS error codes. I spent the first 9 years of my IBM career (1975-1984) as a software engineer debugging core dumps, and still have the yellow S/370 reference card.
These are the ABEND codes. For example, the very common 0004 hardware code presented as "ABEND 0C4" in software

Ahhh reminds me of my remote access BBS days...



exit with code xx to be picked up by a dos batch file that runs 'daily maintenance'

good times

Edited by PixelpeepS3 on Monday 26th November 11:14

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[Clockwork Cupcake]

MartG said:

That's brilliant.

[havoc]

Nicely done.

[Morningside]

Well done.

[glenrobbo]

What a Dick!