The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools...[spoiler]and we have mandatory processes and tools to control how thoseindividuals (we prefer the term ‘resources’)interact[/spoiler]
Working software over comprehensive documentation...[spoiler]as long as that software is comprehensively documented[/spoiler]
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“I ain't gettin' in no flying bicycle basket wit' no crazy foo'!”
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Nice. Though I was expecting something like
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools (though, as developers, interacting with other individuals is beneath us)
Working software over comprehensive documentation (what would be the point of documenting this broken shit anyway)
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation (yeah we totally value this. Wait what, you thought we would be collaborating with those idiots?)
Responding to change over following a plan (other people responding to our changes, that is)
That is, while the items on the right sound like a pain in the ass, we’re a half-assed company, so don't expect too much of column A either.
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We used to play this game in the pub many years ago.
My personal favourite was "The Spy Who Loved E"
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How about "The Last Temptation of Chris"?
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Oldfinger
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Did someone mention blue dots?
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There was a thread on reddit a while ago where people were suggesting movie titles with an added letter. My favorites were Bathman and The Dark Knight Rinses.
Also Sitar Wars and The Men Who Stare At Goatse.
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Tenacious D: The Prick Of Destiny
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Dude, where's my czar? - Set in the confusing beginning of the Soviet era
The Twilight Saga: New Moron
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Methinks that image will be disappeared soon...
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I assume so, but it was worth it for the reactions it gets.
EDIT: Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted, but I can't blame the mods. Voluntarily take-down by request.
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The father of all boners.
I frankly admit this is a fucking bad joke.
Filed under: A Skeleton Named Frank
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Yeah I'm pretty sure this crosses the line.
And the spoiler tags are not exactly reliable, so there's that too.
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http://images1.tickld.com/live/articles/a_503_20150612093626.png
SourceAlso, TIL the word
ague
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I think I may have heard this one before. I'm positive I'm messing up the pronunciation all over the place.
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This Hunger Games poster was tweeted a few days ago, then taken down because it contains an obscenity.
I'm pretty sure the graphic designer knew exactly what they were doing
Filed under: Belgium
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Also, TIL the word
ague
TIL the correct pronunciation of Balmoral (rhymes with laurel).
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I'm positive I'm messing up the pronunciation all over the place.
I think I'm one of the 10% who can pronounce everything correctly (except, perhaps, some unfamiliar proper names whose pronunciation can be inferred from rhymes, as above), but I got bored half-way through and skipped to the punch line at the end.
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If this is the rhyme I think I remember, and I remember correctly, then not all of the lines actually rhyme.
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It's not helped by the fact that some of the words have different accepted pronunciations (British vs American standards)
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not all of the lines actually rhyme.
As far as I got in reading it, they did. Balmoral and laurel do rhyme (allowing for a possible slight variation in the vowel sound of the stressed syllable — so slight that many regions/speakers pronounce them identically).British vs American
According to Wiktionary, the stressed vowel in laurel may be /ɒɹ/ or /ɔːɹ/ in UK or /ɔɹ/ in US. The differences among these are so slight as to be indistinguishable to many listeners, and insignificant in the context of the poem, IMHO.
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"aunt" and "grant" only rhyme in places that pronounce "aunt" like "ant". But that's a legitimate pronunciation anyway.
"very" and "bury" are another pair like that, and "chair" and "mayor".
...where do "four" and "Arkansas" rhyme? Maybe in the deeeep south?
"tear" rhymes with "ere", but "tear " doesn't, and that tripped me up a moment :)
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Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.Surely no variant of English pronounces
food
asfud
?Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant.Rhymes in the US (both
ant
) and the UK south (bothahnt
), but not in the UK north (ahnt
andant
respectively).Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.USians may say
mare
, but we Brits saymay-or
(ormay-ah
), breaking the rhyme.Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Thought, through, plough, or dough, or cough?Doesn't rhyme in any dialect/accent I'm aware of.
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Well, I did say "as far as I got in reading it." Apparently those debatable maybe-it-rhymes-maybe-it-doesn't pairs were after I got bored.
pronounce "aunt" like "ant"
"very" and "bury"
"chair" and "mayor"
No. "Chair" is one syllable; "mayor" is two.where do "four" and "Arkansas" rhyme? Maybe in the deeeep south?
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Doesn't rhyme in any dialect/accent I'm aware of.
They're rather close in whatever dialect I have. Both those vowels are kinda sloppily expressed when I say them, but it's not a perfect rhyme.
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They're rather close in whatever dialect I have
enuff
vscoff
; why would they be even remotely similar in vowel sound?
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When I'm not focusing on diction, cough comes out halfway between
coff
andcuff
. Again, it's not a perfect rhyme, but it's not nearly as bad as arkansaw vs four :D
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I think the way this poem works is different than you might expect, actually. Some of the words at the end rhyme with the next end, but some don't. Reminds me of Dr Seuss.
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USians may say
mare
, but we Brits saymay-or
Maybe because we elect so many horses' rears to the job? No, in my part of the US, at least, we say
may-or
, too. Well, more likemay-ər
, or maybe evenmay-r
, but still two syllables.
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How do you pronounce "Crayon"?
My brother and I, raised in the same household, got into a fight once over how it was pronounced.
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THIS IS FUNNY STUFF
keep going with the rhyming, LAUGH RIOT
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USians may say mare, but we Brits say may-or (or may-ah), breaking the rhyme.
In America, we usually say may-er.
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How do you pronounce "Crayon"?
Somewhere between /ˈkreɪ.ən/ and /ˈkræ.ən/, I think.
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That's completely wrong! None of those have cats in them!
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I think I'm one of the 10% who can pronounce everything correctly
I think 10% of people having no errors is actually a high number for an intentionally difficult text like this.
For comparison, I'm reminded of "Het Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal", a yearly Dutch-language spelling contest. This consists of a text which is read to the contestants, who have to write it down. It is extremely rare for someone to not make any mistakes - in the results for the last 5 years on the site everybody had multiple mistakes.
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I don't know that an ins/del works there. If anything, it should just be an ins.
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Source. NB: It's behind a paywall which can be gotten around via google.