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?
That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is the answer, which is, of course:
slide rule.
No, actually adding machines (the mechanical kind) just use gears and levers, alas.
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.
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.”
Because he’s waging a war of attrition against my self-esteem, obviously. But seriously, in retrospect, my post wasn’t written very clearly.
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
Now that made me smile.