OT Humor: Why did the chicken cross the road? (Techies only)greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?ANSWERS:
ASSEMBLER CHICKEN: First it builds the road ...
C CHICKEN: It crosses the road without looking both ways.
C++ CHICKEN: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd simply refer to him on the other side.
COBOL CHICKEN: 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING. IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES THEN PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD
VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE ELSE GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSINGc
CRAY CHICKEN: Crosses faster than any other chicken, but if you don't dip it in liquid nitrogen first, it arrives on the other side fully cooked.
DELPHI CHICKEN: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on the otherside.
G3 300 mH CHICKEN: It crosses twice as fast as any Pentium chicken
GOPHER CHICKEN: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken.
INTEL PENTIUM CHICKEN: The chicken crossed 4.9999978 times.
IOMEGA CHICKEN: The chicken should have backed up before crossing.
JAVA CHICKEN: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets.)
LOTUS CHICKEN: Don't you *dare* try to cross the road the same way we do!
MAC CHICKEN: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there's no way to tell it to.
MICROSOFT CHICKEN: It's already on both sides of the road. And it just bought the road.
NEWTON CHICKEN: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket!
NT CHICKEN: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure.
OOP CHICKEN: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message.
OS/2 CHICKEN: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed.
OS/ 8.1 HFS+ CHICKEN: It had much more free space to cross.
QUANTUM LOGIC CHICKEN: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your choice.
VB CHICKEN: USHighways!
WEB CHICKEN: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running. WINDOWS 95 CHICKEN: You see different colored feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like ... chicken.
WINDOWS 98 CHICKEN: It should have expected to cause a crash while crossing.
-- Interested Spector (is@the_ring.side), January 07, 2000
BASIC CHICKEN:
10 list CHKN
20 int rd=1
25 int cars=0
30 int yr=19100
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 07, 2000.
Spider, what about :28 If rd=0 goto 29 else 30 29 Ckn=othsid
-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 09, 2000.