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(With great hesitation...) What's the joke here?

It's a commit message written in the style of a Nigerian 419 scam.

Unleashing my inner autist it's funny because although it's extremely stylistically loyal to the format of the Nigerian scams it's simultaneously true to the facts of the checkin.

The juxtaposition of conflicting style and content was always a recurring technique for the humour in Friends. Less extreme but a great example of this is the episode where Chandler recounts peeing on Monica's leg to relieve the jellyfish sting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2-vYNCCBjo

That makes WAY more sense. Thanks. And +1 for using the word juxtaposition... or maybe -1. :)

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