Ooh, give me a moment! opens box labeled Old-Timey Geezer Stuff, pulls out Antiquated Crap and Useless Junk dictionary* Is it a slide rule?
If not, are you referring to adding machines?
Log table! Log table?
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Log table! Log table?
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That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is the answer, which is, of course:
slide rule.
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If not, are you referring to adding machines?
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No, actually adding machines (the mechanical kind) just use gears and levers, alas.
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That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is the answer, which is, of course:
slide rule.
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But why spoiler it when Inner Stickler already got it? 
Most geeky joke I ever heard, I’ve told to dozens of people and only one person got it.
“I think it’s far too easy to write bad code in Perl. I responded by increasing my disciple as a programmer and writing good, clear code. Other people responded by writing code that reads like modem init strings”
My calculus teacher told us that we should never ‘drink and derive’. Not bad for a high school teacher.
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Most geeky joke I ever heard, I’ve told to dozens of people and only one person got it.
“I think it’s far too easy to write bad code in Perl. I responded by increasing my disciple as a programmer and writing good, clear code. Other people responded by writing code that reads like modem init strings”
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Not only do I get it, I’ve used that before to describe a miserable looking SQL query that someone concocted.
Three engineers are going on a road trip when suddenly their car dies and will not restart.
The chemical engineer says: “Since we know the tank’s not empty, we should take a sample of our fuel for analysis to determine if we need to replace the fuel filter.”
The mechanical engineer says: "I think we should open the hood to make sure there hasn’t been any failure in the materials that make up the engine.
The software engineer says: “Before we get carried away let’s all get out of the car, get back in, and try starting it again.”
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But why spoiler it when Inner Stickler already got it?
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Because he’s waging a war of attrition against my self-esteem, obviously. But seriously, in retrospect, my post wasn’t written very clearly.
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One of my oldie-but-goodie favorites:
Noah is letting all the animals off the ark. To each he says “Be fruitful and multiply!”
The adders (it’s a type of snake!) go past, and Noah gives them the same admonition, to which they say:
“Alas, adders can’t multiply…”
Several weeks later, Noah is in his back yard getting firewood. He is searching through a big pile of timber when he sees the two adders surrounded by a host of baby adders.
“I thought you told me that adders can’t multiply!” he exclaims.
The adders reply (wait for it):
“Well, with logs they can…” yuck.
Logs = logarithms. All us geeks over a certain age were taught how to multiply two very large numbers together by adding their logarithms. If you have no idea what a logarithm is, don’t worry; you haven’t missed anything useful.
Hint: The meaning of the joke is also important to a certain type of mechanical device that has, alas, disappeared from our modern world. Anybody know what I’m talking about?
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Goofy and geeky, all in one.
I never learned how to use one.
Q: What do you call people who always do what you want?
A: DWIMmin!
] never metabracket it couldn’t close.
(Not just Lisp jokes. Interlisp jokes.)
My other CAR is a CDR.
Asynchronous inputs are at the root of our race problems.
Statistics, where deviation is standard and mean is average.
FORTH IF HONK THEN
//GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH
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According to Freud, what comes between fear and sex?
Fünf.
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Now that made me smile.