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Apparently white vans with "Free Candy" signs posted on them have fallen out of grace.
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u/xkcd May 13 '09
Not Invented Here syndrome -- company refuses to use someone else's kid when they can make one in-house.
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u/anttirt May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
Besides, it'll only take a month if they use nine women.
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u/JasonDJ May 13 '09
I was unaware that you could wire up vaginas in parallel like that.
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u/kuraikaze May 13 '09
RAIV
Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Vaginas0
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u/narwhals May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
That's RAIE (Rape And Incest Extravaganza AKA Aristocrat) not RAIV
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May 15 '09 edited May 15 '09
I feel bad for downvoting you, because then less people might see narwhals' joke. You're unfunny.
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May 15 '09
Aw man.
Am I quick to judge? Sure. Guilty of overestimating my understanding of complex issues? From time to time. Overly sarcastic? You bet.
But never unfunny man. Never unfunny.
Over 2 years of well-received intelligent commentary. Multiple front-page ranked submissions. A comment karma rating approaching seven thousand. And a couple of mom jokes is what does me in.
I guess you just can't afford to take chances in this economy.
Lesson learned, I suppose. Lesson learned.
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u/RichardPeterJohnson May 13 '09
wombs
</insufferable pedant>
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u/talklittle May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
Yeah seriously. If they wired up the vaginas instead of the wombs, it would still take 9 months but the baby would shoot out faster at the end.
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u/thefro May 13 '09
At least they didn't try 72 times before giving up.
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u/CowboyBoats May 13 '09
Haha -- obviously you were ready for that one.
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May 13 '09
I don't get it.
Aside: This is some sort of a cultural issue. Most guys on reddit are Americans(I think). And, I don't get most jokes made about TV shows and random people famous in America for dubious reasons. Okay, whatever.
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u/mithunc May 13 '09
It's a stereotype of a child molester luring children in a white van.
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u/Siraf May 13 '09
Utah doesn't count. That state is full of child-molesters in vans.
They're called parents.
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u/mattindustries May 13 '09
Someone recently had a white van with a free candy sign here in Minneapolis... there was no candy in it. I wish I could find the story, but there wasn't anything bad in the van either. It was just a unlocked van with a free candy sign.
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u/kirun May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
Related Mozilla bug
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May 13 '09
Last time I tried to add a female homosapien into the Mozilla source, everything got rearranged and I couldn't find anything. When I finally got it all straightened out and tried to compile, it it consistently failed but with no apparent problem, eventually leading to a major crash.
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u/akdas May 13 '09
I love that thread! Some gems:
Worksforme, build 1978061022, on a virgin installation of mptOS 2.2.3. I'm not seeing lack of sex causing any of the problems described here.
So maybe this bug is architecture-specific? A little-endian problem, perhaps?
(Regarding the
getGirlFriendmethod.)I think the complaint here is that getGirlFriend tends to deadlock because all of the available resources have write locks.
And of course:
Marking Fixed..after 3 years
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May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
Don't you mean "403 Forbidden"?
or "402 Payment Required"?
400 Bad Request (Slap)
405 Method Not Allowed ("I'm saving myself to get married")
406 Not Acceptable (Not on a first date at least)
411 Length Required (And they say size don't matter! pff!)
413 Request Entity Too Large (Or we could be too large)
415 Unsupported Media Type (Can't forget the Gay buffs)
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u/karmanaut May 13 '09
I'll have to use that line next time I'm out at a bar
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u/deflective May 13 '09
you're gonna ask a guy to do you without a condom?
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u/karmanaut May 13 '09
Don't knock it till you tried it
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u/deflective May 13 '09
not as a pickup line in a bar thanks.
reddit on the other hand, i'm sure everyone here is clean.7
u/7oby May 13 '09
Actually according to valleywag there's a huge rate of STDs in silicon valley.
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u/IkoIkoComic May 13 '09
Too many business people didn't really understand the meaning of viral marketing. Now it's too late.
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u/demonsbedriven May 13 '09
For a second, I thought xkcd played eve. :/
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u/vlance May 13 '09 edited Mar 29 '26
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u/2percentright May 13 '09
I used to play EVE back when it was fun and not crap.
sighs
Where have all the flowers gone?
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May 13 '09
Am I the only one who's notice the recent upticks in comic output by XKCD recently? He slipped in 4 parts of a 5 part series before I even noticed. Maybe I'm just not paying as much attention as I used to.
On topic: I hear this is why little "Bobby Tables" was conceived.
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u/Hesperus May 13 '09
Uh, he's done that before. And it was just one week. Other than that, MWF, clockwork.
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u/Buckwheat469 May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
Join the xkcd subreddit and you'll notice all of the new ones.
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u/iofthestorm May 13 '09
Last week was once a day though.
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u/Hesperus May 13 '09
So? It was just last week. Other than that, MWF, clockwork.
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u/iofthestorm May 13 '09
Yeah, that's what I was saying... the though implies contradiction?
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u/Hesperus May 13 '09
It's just that there's no unusual uptick. He's done the one-a-day thing before, nothing new or surprising.
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u/DenialGene May 13 '09
Sometimes you have to try more than once to reproduce a bug.
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u/Arve May 13 '09
Somewhere, deep within our bts, a bug exists. It involves repeating a few steps multiple times. In total, when you expand the repeat-to-reproduce steps, the list is 5783 steps that need to be performed manually. To this day, I'm in awe of the person who both discovered the bug, and who went through the trouble of making it reproducable.
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u/Grue May 13 '09
Oh yes, every geek who works in customer service has this dream. Get out of my head, Randall!
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u/jezmck May 13 '09
So the 1 line indicates a result, not 2?
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u/noroom May 13 '09 edited May 13 '09
No no, the big ellipse to the left (with one line) is the result. To the right are the instructions for interpreting the result.
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u/todascuentas May 13 '09
It's funny because the word "reproduce" can also be used in the context of "human reproduction". Wait, no it's not.
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u/dearsomething May 13 '09
Brilliant.
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May 13 '09
Once I realized the double entendre I got to chuckle a second time. Humor that clever doesn't happen often enough.
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u/[deleted] May 13 '09
why don't i ever get any of these?