[ale] OT: humor - XKCD

[Grady Harris]

A little while back, a [what is the collective noun?] of secretaries &
admin assistants gave a baby shower for a co-worker of mine. Apart
from K.'s two-year-old, I was the only male in the room. As one of
their "games," they tried a ritual humiliation of me the oldest of the
secretaries, having us co-operate, she supplying the left hand & I,
the right, to diaper a teddy bear with some kind of modern swaddling
that had fastenings which hadn't been invented yet when either of us
had last diapered a baby. We could not undo the doggone thing.

They were cackling & cackling. All of a sudden, an even older hand
memory returned to me--"Wait a minute, I know how to do this kind of
thing."

I picked up the diaper, held it behind Joanne's back one-handed, had
it unfastened in a second. They stopped laughing real fast.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:25 AM, aaron<aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> On 2009, Aug, 08, , at 1:50 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>
>> I can see the humor in that, but cannot empathise. I've never
>> understood why guys have a hard time with that. I can understand why
>> it's hard for a woman to undo her own, but not from a 3rd party. I can
>> undo my wife's left handed while brushing my teeth with my dominant
>> hand. I would expect an EMACS user could undo a bra with a broken
>> thumb.
>
> :-)
> Sure you can unhook the bra left handed, but lets not gloss over how
> you practiced all those years on a Rubics cube with the colors sanded
> off!
> :-)
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>> On 8/7/09, adam <prozaconstilts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> john anderson wrote:
>>>> Or, how about this recent one:
>>>> http://xkcd.com/619/
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have issue with this particular strip.
>>>
>>> Didn't Randall Munroe get it wrong? Why is this lack of working flash
>>> video Linux's fault? Is this not the vendor's fault?
>>>
>>> One could even claim he's referring to bad drivers, but is this
>>> Linux's
>>> fault? Isn't it the fault of poorly written drivers, failure to
>>> properly
>>> support the platform, and lack of vendor interest?
>>>
>>> In terms of what Linux does well, and where it gets used most, I
>>> can see
>>> the need to support a bajillion CPUs before supporting good flash.
>>> When
>>> I need a thousand-node cluster to churn over protein strands, you
>>> better
>>> believe I want an OS that can use all of my resources.
>>>
>>> </rant>
>>>
>>> In general, xkcd makes me lol on a regular basis.
>>>
>>> http://xkcd.com/457/
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