laugh of the day

[cellio]

Bill Walsh writes about an episode of the Amazing Race in which teams were required to use a manual typewriter to type a supplied passage. The passage contained the number "1". Sadly, Bill notes, the token old people had already been eliminated. Apparently hilarity ensued. (I presume there were no remaining middle-aged people either. I assume that most people of my generation would have known what to do.)

And the title of Bill's post? "LOL 101". :-)

Comments

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Amazing Race is one of our favorite shows. This episode just aired last night, it was the finale for the season. Interesting task.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

10ve it!

[cellio]

Bazinga. :-)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[dragonazure.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I admit that after a few decades of being used to computer keyboards, it might have taken me a moment to recall what to do. So much for being the new L33T.... ;^)

[sethg]

My first home computer was an Apple ][+, and I remember that the manual explicitly pointed out that you shouldn’t type “l” for “1” or “O” for “0”.

There was a how-to-type textbook lying around the house—I assume it had originally been my mother’s—that included instructions on how to make an exclamation point: apostrophe, backspace, period.

[cellio]

Wow, I don't remember ever having to make my own exclamation points!

[sethg]

Now, notice what happens when you hit SHIFT-1 on a standard American keyboard.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

My previous-to-previous employer (the one that canned me when he realized I could do his job better than he could) had me documenting HIS Cobol code. There were three loops in the code. Each one apparently labelled 'loop'. I spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how the program managed to always go to the correct loop. Then I took a much closer look... They were labelled 'loop', l00p, and '100p'. Aggghh!!! This is a professional programmer????? (For the benefit of anyone using a font that doesn't show the difference; "L-O-O-P", "L-zero-zero-P" and "one-zero-zero-P")