btw, if you didn't find an in-joke [1] funny [2][3][4][5] then it's probably because of a very good reason :) Knuth himself found it funny [6] [1] https://en.

btw, if you didn't find an in-joke [1] funny [2][3][4][5] then it's probably because of a very good reason :) Knuth himself found it funny [6] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-joke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-joke [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.computers/qfwJTPPFdsw https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.compute... [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/38gt65/wasnt_expecting_my_biggest_laugh_of_the_day_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/38gt65/was... [4] http://texthook.com/blog/2013/07/01/reading-knuth/ http://texthook.com/blog/2013/07/01/reading-knuth/ [5] http://tal.forum2.org/story_45 http://tal.forum2.org/story_45 [6] http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb17-1/tb50knut.pdf http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb17-1/tb50knut.pdf (page 10)