Funny, though it is abundantly clear that you are not familiar with Linus's standard tone and vocabulary.
A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it is vitriolic. You have a selection bias.
A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it is vitriolic. You have a selection bias.
Ok, I have a better plan.
- you learn to fly by flapping your arms fast enough
- you then learn to pee burning gasoline
- then, you fly around New York, setting everybody you see on fire, until
people make you emperor.
Sounds like a good plan, no?
No matter how many times I read that, I always laugh.
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 linux@horizon.com wrote:
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> > But perhaps slightly impractical.
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> There are just few laws of physics it violates.
Yeah, yeah. You avoided a few laws of phsyics of your own.
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My plan was more interesting, I feel.
Another type of jokes reaffirms what the listener already believe. The fun is the comfort of being proven socially right. This was the second type of joke. Those are obviously only funny to those who believe in the cliché the joke is using. As Homer Simpson put it "It's funny because it's true!"
(explaining jokes is not funny)