Explaining the "Story of Mel"
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If you're an idiot who has no idea how computers actually work, this explanation of that old Internet canard "the Story of Mel" will maybe help you insert information into your mushy brain:
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BTW, the story has a Wiki page (go figure) and apparently Mel Kaye was actually a real, if elusive, person.
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hmm.... when i opened this thread i thought this was about a different Mel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00rpu4y0lzg&index=1&list=PLj_Goi54wf0dtkXvI8nOCZi8uSI6IJt0u
/me reads the link
oh. that Mel. I never did like that story much. Interesting writeup though.
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Haven't read that one in a while. Good times.
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Not Mel Gibson? Mel Blanc?
Kids these days!!!
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The only Mel AFAIC is
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Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.
Machine Code.
Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers.
Directly.Meh. I remember handling punch cards. Hex numbers and assembly code are for lazy wimps. You kids these days don't appreciate real programming!
Filed under: Now where's my hole puncher...
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Who?
You can't possibly not know who was the voice of Bugs Bunny and many other Loonie Tunes characters.
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Jesus Christ, even accalia can get bites when trolling here? Goddamned.
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Every fox deserves its day in the sun, and I'm content after watching Ant-Man, so...
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Well I can tell you that I have never once in my life thought about who voiced Bugs Bunny before.
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Interesting story - not seen that one before
I read the title as
Explaining the "Story of Me!"
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Well I can tell you that I have never once in my life thought about who voiced Bugs Bunny before.
Do people usually voice cartoon characters?
Always though the voice was synthesized. Like the animations.
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How do we know it's not Mel Tormé?
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You can't possibly not know who was the voice of Bugs Bunny and many other Loonie Tunes characters
Mel Gibson voiced Bugs Bunny
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Mel Gibson voiced Bugs Bunny
As opposed to Mel Blanc who voiced John Smith and Rocky...
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Excellent writeup. I sort of understood the gist of the original story, but this article certainly helps clear things up.
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Sadly, there are still people who think that being a Real Programmer is goal to be sought after. One such person
trolledasked about this on the OS-Dev forums late last year. I and one other poor fool made the mistake of mentioning 'The Story of Mel' to him, leading to one of the strangest conversations ever held on a message board that I know of (which is saying something, given that I used to inhabit alt.discordia and alt.slack in their glory days).Filed under: TRWTF is the existence of an OS-Dev hobbyist site, amirite?
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Mel Blanc?
Who?
Sounds like she's drawing a Blanc, there. But then, so did Chuck.
But I just chucked that out for your entertainment. And if you're Jonesing Forth Moore, I can put the Peddle to the metal. Not that I have a chip on my shoulder or anything. All these puns are Fagin me out, mate, but I'm sure a shot of Hennessy would have me Wilson to go on in no time, but even if the courage is synthetic, there's a kernel of truth, so O'Reilly should stop Massalin around here before I SPARC a flamefest, Reitz? I can't Dani some of these transitions are Berry rough, and I expect you're all Ritchie with the need to look Torvalds the future, so I won't Stallman things any longer, so before this Gates any more absurd and I end up losing my Jobs, I'll just Raymond you Allen not to give up, Gosper-speed to you all.
(OK, a lame pun like that last one is a real Dijkstra move on my part, I feel like Aho for it and I don't know how I will be Abelson to Mak amends for it.)
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one of the strangest conversations ever held on a message board
humans can be forgetful, impatient and/or tired, which machines cannot.
My computer certainly seems to get tired when I haven't rebooted it for a while.
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My computer certainly
I'd put it down to the os/ other processes. Hardware faults ( excepting drivers) are usually not fixed by a reboot.
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Hardware faults ( excepting drivers) are usually not fixed by a reboot.
Little do you know...
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I'd put it down to the os/ other processes. Hardware faults ( excepting drivers) are usually not fixed by a reboot.
Did I say anything about hardware? Too many processes using too much memory.
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Hardware faults ( excepting drivers) are usually not fixed by a reboot.
But a number of types of hardware problem are fixed by switching the thing off for a while. Especially those relating to things that have got a bit hot…
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/Schol-R-LEA looks frantically for some way to derail this BS
So, ah, has anyone tried to decipher my Hurricane O' Puns post earlier in this thread?
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Does your ego depend that strongly on what random idiots on this forum think of your jokes?
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Right now, any sort of response is a good distraction from my suicidal impulses.
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Ok, well, I'll be honest: once I realized it was just a bunch of puns, I didn't read it.
I might have if you had created a new thread for it, but this thread is discussing the optimization of ancient computers with drum memory. More or less.
I'll never understand why people post things that took a decent amount of time to compose buried entirely in the middle of some completely unrelated thread. If you want people to see it, put it up top, listed on the front page, large and in-charge.
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So, ah, has anyone tried to decipher my Hurricane O' Puns post earlier in this thread?
Have a pity like.