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Friday 6 July 2007

Nerd Word Fun & Games

Michael sent me an email that immediately cheered me up over being stuck in the UK an extra day due to a broken plane. In it, he writes:

“MySpace is to HTML as Barry Gibb is to Beck”

Now I don’t know if I’m just desperate for a laugh at the moment or if my incessant giggling proves this to be truly funny. Since I expect not to have the time or motivation to write anything serious for a few days as I journey from this rainy island to the searing desert, I thought we might have some fun along this theme.

Write a short, pithy, nerdy saying, and don’t hold back! The only “rule” as it were is that the topic has to relate to nerdy concepts and words.

Top three faves will win a book, which I anticipate being able to give more away of now that I’m returning home for a while.

Your turn!

Filed under:   humor, pop culture, giveaways and fun, creativity
Posted by:   Molly | 6:30 pm |

43 Responses to “Nerd Word Fun & Games”

  1. Matt Heerema Says:

    Ruby on Rails is the man purse of Web programming.

  2. Gingerskhan Says:

    I think it was William Shakespeare who wrote

    “A plague o’ both your browsers!”

    and

    “The devil can cite Scripting for his purpose.”

    Obviously a 16th century code poet who battled with browser inconsistencies!

    PS Sorry for all the rain!

  3. johnsee Says:

    Welcome to my HTML sorry, we’re closed. (Not written by me)

  4. Alan Says:

    b

  5. Alan Says:

    doh… meant for that to display the code for b bold…. b …. oh well

  6. Patrick Lee Says:

    “Facebook is to MySpace as Courtney Cox is to Courtney Love.”

  7. Jon Says:

    My girlfriend is rather attracted to my nerdyness and although it’s not particularly web related as other’s contributions have been I once said this to her at an opportune moment (if you know what I mean) and to my surprise her reaction was more than welcome ( wink wink). Anyway here it is:

    “Pi is the square root of Pi squared’

  8. Sean McGee Says:

    I believe it was an aggie who once said: “Cornbread are squared…Pi are round!”

  9. Jason Says:

    I was recently lambasting someone for using google pages in the Opera forums, when I came up with this little gem:

    Good lord, Google Pages makes GeoCities look robust and well coded… Which is a bit like saying a 1976 Fiat 128 is a quality automobile compared to a 1986 Yugo GV.

  10. Dan Schulz Says:

    What’s the difference between a drive-by Web designer and a con artist?

  11. Trace Meek Says:

    Got Layout?

  12. Jeff Says:

    As “war is the pursuit of politics by other means”, so to are browser inconsistencies the pursuit of semantic web design by other means.

  13. Dan Schulz Says:

    Jeff, that would be the use of CSS hacks, not browser inconsistencies. ;)

  14. Ben Buchanan Says:

    On my crankier days:
    There’s a reason it’s called “Flash” and not “Substance”.

    After a major network outage I almost made someone cry laughing by yelling “a plague! a plague on BOTH your routers!”

  15. thacker Says:

    All of these “geek” comparisons are confusing. Hoping if I can just get this damn pocket protector stapled to my chest that it will help in comprehension. Oh well.

  16. Kevin Marks Says:

    I rather liked Danny O’Brien’s “RDF was the LSD of the 90’s”

  17. Steven Clark Says:

    William Shatner, William Shatner, William Shatner - What about meeeeee?

    (only the original joke is obviously in drunken Ferengi to the Grand Nagus - you had to be there - and refers to the fact the Ferengi never came to us until The Next Generation)…

    too geeky? OK it never happened :)

    The line was hijacked from the original Brady Bunch series - “Marcia Marcia Marcia what about meeee”! but i didnt’ want to admit it.

  18. Steven Clark Says:

    all your base are mine molly holzschlag :)

  19. Steven Clark Says:

    hey i just fell off the end of the array and turned into a NULL pointer - honest!

    or

    occams razor? By god woman that’s not for your legs!!!!

  20. Madness Says:

    “I had tabs before you even knew they were.”

    Actually it’s not tabs, it’s MDI since I began using them as of opera 5, but whatever. :P

  21. Steven Clark Says:

    molly as a deterministic finite automaton (finite state machine), now that’s geeky…

    applying the Knuth, Morris, Pratt (KMP) Algorithm to it… way out there…

    spending the afternoon actually doing that is priceless :)

    it should be on a tshirt!!!

  22. Steven Clark Says:

    On the subject of Iraq
    rm -rf *

    - great for a geeky anti war tshirt slogan!

  23. Dave Says:

    I went to get a bank mini-statement. I actually asked for a view source on my account. Oops.

  24. Michael Newton Says:

    Not mine of course (I believe it was jwz) but this has always been one of my favourites.

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

  25. Claire Says:

    OK Mols -

    Now this one is kind of old. It was seen on a t-shirt back in the early 90’s - but has always always always cracked me up (it might be out of context for your question - but I haven’t had a chance to repeat it in a really really long time).

    If God had wanted man to have sex online - s/he would have given man three hands.

    ha ha ha ha (sorry - but it always cracks me up)

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    .UppaCrust
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  27. Dave Mohrman Says:

    Crap! I forgot to close the H1 tag!

    Here it is. Cut and paste it in to the code:

    </h1>

    ;^P

  28. Todd Says:

    Geeky and nerdy huh? Wellll..I’ll give it a try:

    “I’ll grep your awk and raise you two PERLS!” *s*

  29. Matt Says:

    My hard drive is way bigger than yours.

    And my spin to an old favourite:
    Please, PLEASE tell me how to set this laser printer to stun!

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  31. Alex Andronov Says:

    Real geeks won’t eat chips

  32. Matt Says:

    I flock. Do you flock?

    LOL, I just love the name of that browser!

  33. Jason Says:

    Nice boot, wanna fsck?

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    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by IE6 bugs.

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