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Wed, 07/29/2009 - 01:42 — deadprogrammer
I find Jewish humor to be one of the best ways to explain certain situations in programming. Here are two that I find particularly funny and useful. The first is a true story told me by a friend. I use it when I'm told that good web developers don't use tables. It goes like this: My friend's aunt met her religious relatives for the first time after coming to America from the Soviet Union. Horrified at being served pork sausage, they told her: "But auntie, Jews don't eat pork!". She replied -- "Nonsense, I eat it all the time." The second is an old and racist Soviet-era joke. A Chukcha serves in the Soviet Army, and is an exemplary soldier in border patrol. There's only one problem -- he tends to eat patrol dogs, considering them a delicacy (this untrue ethnic detail must have been created to make the joke setup work). An army psychologist offers to correct this. He sits the soldier down, takes out his watch, and hypnotizes him with the words "you are not a Chukcha, you are a Jew. You don't like to eat dogs, you like to eat gefilte fish." The patrol dogs continue to vanish even after the hypnosis seems to have worked. Authorities send another soldier to follow the hypnotized Chukcha around. This soldier reports that the Chukcha sits the dogs down, takes out his watch and hypnotizes them with the words "You are not a dog, you are gefilte fish." I tend to tell it when I'm told that the act of turning a hack into a Drupal module somehow makes it "gefilte fish." |
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