The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041
Too much to quote, but...story about flying an SR-71 near L.A., a Cessna, then a Beechcraft, then an F-18 ask for ground speed checks. Obviously, the SR-71 had them all easily beaten.
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Bye bye Flash... again.
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I can't … I can't believe he tweeted that.
And people want to work for or pay this moron?
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I hate indy (not Indian) films with Deep Meaning
You mean the ones about that guy with the funny hat, or the ones about cars driving in circles?
Filed under: it's like the Circle of Life
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I thought it was fake but . . . . it's . . . . . real
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Damn, it's spelled "indie", isn't it?
I actually liked the movies about the guy in a funny hat, even the last one.
And while I never watched this particular driving in circles event, I'm not opposed to it and I've watched a lot of other races when I was younger and had more free time.
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Is it supposed to look like it's cracked in half and the upper half is slipping off?
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Pretty!
But awful to use. IRIX was not nice. The only good thing about their systems was that they could support an arbitrary number of different 256-color palettes on screen at once, so stuff didn't look nearly as awful when doing graphics work as on other workstations of the time.
Is it supposed to look like it's cracked in half and the upper half is slipping off?
Yes. SGI had some funny ideas about how to make their workstations look different. For example, I used one of these for a while (until I got a mighty Dell laptop that outclassed it in every single possible respect):
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But awful to use. IRIX was not nice. The only good thing about their systems was that they could support an arbitrary number of different 256-color palettes on screen at once, so stuff didn't look nearly as awful when doing graphics work as on other workstations of the time.
Imagine using the case of one of these for something like an HTPC, though ...
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Why the hell is it purple?
Hold on...
Hmmm... that kinda works...
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Love it! I want three!
Seriously, that would be a cool thing to have.
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Seriously, that would be a cool thing to have.
Only if you keep it switched off! They produced plenty of heat when switched on, IIRC…
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Good. My feet get really cold in the winter. I could use it to warm them
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so stuff didn't look nearly as awful when doing graphics work as on other workstations of the time.
Though to be fair, the palette switching did tend to make the screen look like @aliceif's backgrounds. (Except on IRIX, where SGI did hardware black magic.)
I'm so glad all that shit has gone. All that crap in X11 for Visuals and Colormaps… so much effort to work around hardware limitations yet all of that now irrelephant. (Windows used a different approach usually: it was their
waysystem palette or the highway.)
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Gibby bites!
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Windows used a different approach usually: it was their
waysystem palette or the highwayBut I seem to remember that full-screen applications could use a custom palette, right?
Makes sense, really. If you must use palettes, then one windowed application shouldn't be allowed to scramble the palette that's also being used to display other windowed applications. It's a multi-tasking environment and you might want to tile two applications and use them both at the same time.
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If you must use palettes, then one windowed application shouldn't be allowed to scramble the palette that's also being used to display other windowed applications.
Other techniques have been tried. They sucked.
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Watching a subtitled Masterchef episode:
"Your dish has a nice, fresh taste. Reminds me of metal coil".
[spoiler]Spring[/spoiler]
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*out back, unless this was taken in Australia, in which case an opportunity for another "outback" was missed.
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I rather doubt those restaurants exist there. They wouldn't be able to find a sufficiently fake Ozian to do the ads.
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I rather doubt those restaurants exist there. They wouldn't be able to find a sufficiently fake Ozian to do the ads.
Why? Did Paul Hogan die or something?
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That looks like that one TF2 halloween KotH map.
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Why did the horse cross the road?
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Because the chicken needed a day off
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A guy in a pub hears some larger ladies at the next table talking in a strong accent.
He goes over to them and asks, "Where in Scotland are you three girls from?"
"It's Wales, you idiot!" replies one angrily.
"Sorry, where in Scotland are you three whales from?"
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I saw a chicken cross the road once.
It was poultry in motion.
Wait a second, this isn't the bad jokes thread!
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My wife asked me if I thought her sister is hot. Apparenlty 'yes' was not the correct answer.
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I just learned how the American tradition of tracking Santa's position on radar as he flies around on Christmas Eve delivering toys got started. (Although it's documented on Wikipedia and norad.mil, I never had any reason to look for the info.) I got an email ad from Sears describing how they (quite accidentally) started the tradition.
On Christmas Eve 60 years ago, they printed an ad with a phone number for kids to call and talk to Santa. However, the number printed was wrong, and actually went to the command center of the Continental Air Defense Command, predecessor of NORAD. The colonel on duty told his staff to give all children who called a location for Santa. Thus was a tradition born.
All because of a typo. (Paging @accalia)
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There were people who didn't already know that story?
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I am jealous of how you've managed to not hear it about 46 times every fucking Christmas season.
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Probably not being USian helped a lot.
Not watching TV for the last 15 years might have been a factor too.
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My wife asked me if I thought her sister is hot. Apparenlty 'yes' was not the correct answer.
Wow. I'm not married and even I know the correct answer is, "Are you kidding? She's your sister." ...and refuse to elaborate.
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Wrong. There is no correct answer. It's a trap.
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It depends on the context. If you know there has been an argument between them, you can say "No one is, compared to you". But if their argument has been around you being smartass, then you are screwed. Complex gameplay.
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Wrong. There is no correct answer. It's a trap.
Ummm...yeah. I just realized I should have put quotes around the word "answer" in my statement. If you read it again, you'll see it's not an answer...it's completely ambiguous.
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Just like "do I look fat?" "does this dress fits me?", " am I insane for...?"
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See this is why I only date women with no sisters.
Or twins.
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date women
twins.
That is the wildest fantasy ... oops too much beer
(post withdrawn, never mind)
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Good ideas thread is