Anyone besides me ever use “high-level” put-downs or jokes that not everyone is going to get? I work in an IT company, so the average IQ tends to be, well, above average, so the one I like to use usually gets chuckles, but occasionally blank stares:
“He’s so dense, he’s his own walking, talking quantum singularity.”
Anyone know or use any others??
Don’t know if this can be considered clever… but…
“It’s an ID ten T problem.”
Translation: ID10T… IDIOT…
He’s so dense his head has an event horizon.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don’t.
(In response to someone making an unfounded and incorrect logical leap in reasoning) “So, if she she weighs the same as a duck, she’s…made of wood…and therefore…a witch!”
Generally, engineers I work with get the reference. Managers and finance/business guys, not so much.
Stranger
“What does think about [Y]? Dude, you’re going to throw a NullPointerException!”
(Yes, I’m a Java programmer)
(Still haven’t got it? Consider: )
Person x = new Person("X");
// if X.getBrain() == null this will throw a NullPointerException...
try {
Thought idea = X.getBrain().getThought(Y);
} catch ...
Oooh! Oooh! I must nominate one of my prouder SDMB moments; post #6 in this thread.
What’s wrong with simply asking someone, “With your brains, why aren’t you working customer service?”
I returned the relayed greetings of alice_in_wonderland’s father with Any truth to those rumors about the Greek lexicon being remaindered?
Bad. Very bad.
PEBKAC error (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair)
the “loose nut” on the keyboard
ESO error (Equipment Smarter than Operator)
We always used “It’s a one D ten T problem.”
Another one: “Must we continue this Moebius conversation?” Repeat after every pointless re-phrasing of the other person’s position until he catches on.
My friend has a British Pram for his baby. I wrote the word ZAP on the back. He didn’t get it. 
“Well, he’s one horseman short of an apocalypse”. One of my favorites from here.
X sucks so much that when s/he walks in the door/gets on stage/etc drinks begin to boil at room temperature.
“Man, he is slower than a 56K modem…”
“You’re so FF00FF.”
(At my first job in games, the tool we used for character animation used magenta (Red:255 Green:0 Blue:255) as the transparent mask. One of the art techs used the above insult whenever she wanted to call our boss on his BS.)
“He puts the ‘B’ in ‘Subtle’.”
Aw, I just snorted really loudly!
applauds all of you, with tears of mirth in her eyes
Well, I’m sorry to say I don’t either. What’s the deal?