On: The Church of Interruption

[mbar84]

So jokes are Little-endian I guess.

[the_pwner224 → mbar84]

So I guess that means one thing that is little-endian is a joke.

FTFY :)

[nguoi → mbar84]

Good jokes are.

I notice some jokes, especially on Facebook etc., where the punchline is far too early and it feels like they're obnoxiously drilling the joke home. It's also the same when you have someone make a reference in a comment thread, then the next person continues the reference with less subtlety.

[TuringTest → mbar84]

It makes sense. They say humour is based on creating expectations and solving them suddenly.

[JadeNB → TuringTest]

> They say humour is based on creating expectations and solving them suddenly.

I don't know what it means to solve expectations; I'd guess it means to meet them, but I've always understood part of the recipe for humour to be violating expectations.

[beckingz → mbar84]

Only the shaggy dog jokes.

[wool_gather → beckingz]

I would say that shaggy dog jokes are buffer overflows.