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[mcroft]

Is it scarier that my cubeneighbor made an assembly language joke or that I laughed at it?

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[mrkamikaze.livejournal.com]

Both equally scary.
More scary that you "blogged" the event.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking of you!

That happens every time I see a story about African Greys

[mrkamikaze.livejournal.com]

Alex rocks!

http://www.alexfoundation.org

[paracoon.livejournal.com]

So, uh... what's the joke?

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Me : What are you thinking about?
Rod: Nothing.
Me : You can't be thinking of 'nothing'. Doesn't work...
Rod: NOOP, NOOP, NOOP...

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

that you laughed

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

that paracoon wanted to know the joke

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

depends on if he laughed at it...

[paracoon.livejournal.com]

I didn't, alas. It's not much of a joke. Was it accompanied by any physical antics? Perhaps an amusing intonation? NOOP *could* have comedic potential as a noise, as the OO sound and P are usually amusing when used in conjunction.

Yes, I analyze comedy.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Alas, there is no "OO". It's two syllables (no op), since it's the opcode for "No Operation", which is what you tell a computer when you want it to do nothing really fast.

[tristam.livejournal.com]

My father was known as Doc-NOOP as his job for a time. It was his favorite way of fixing problems.

I would vote for the scariest thing being me understanding the joke.

[kodi]

Now that I know the joke had nothing to do with the sign exchange operator, I can say that the making of the joke was scarier.

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

sign exchange operator? Isn't that what they called Orkut when it was in beta?