RE: [OT] Long words (was: How to enter for example \200 offered by ispell in its buffer *Choices*)

["Jürgen Hartmann" <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com>]

Emanuel Berg  wrote:

>> I like language-based jokes a lot. (How about this:
>> a female student of humanities ask her female friend
>> studying CS about dating prospects at her faculty.
>> The answer? "The odds are good, but the goods are
>> odd." ;-))
>
> I understand the pun but not the joke.

That's odd.
(SCNR.)

> That must be
> a white-collar CS joke.

Don't let this unsettle you: It says that the CS people are the good guys...
(*duck and run*)

> Us blue-collar hackers don't
> understand Haskell, UML, AJAX, microkernels and so on
> either. As for puns, how about this:
>
>     There are two tools watching TV.
>     One saw.
>
> :)

Hehe, yet a good one.

> If anyone is actually offended but such jokes is
> another matter.

If the motivation of the joke is pure humor and if this is obvious to
anybody, there should be no problem, IMHO. But of course things become
difficult if there might be any disparaging aspect in the jokes mechanism.

Juergen