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Funny, though it is abundantly clear that you are not familiar with Linus's standard tone and vocabulary. A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it i

by jlgreco 13y ago

Funny, though it is abundantly clear that you are not familiar with Linus's standard tone and vocabulary. A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it is vitriolic. You have a selection bias.

swcool888 13y ago
Agree!
asdfologist 13y ago
It's called a joke.
- michaelhoffman 13y ago
  Aren't jokes usually funny?
  - nraynaud 13y ago
    funniness is about the couple sender/receiver, not an intrinsic quality of the joke.
  - Ziomislaw 13y ago
    I found it funny (though I stopped using Linux some time ago, maybe that is the reason?)
  - eevee 13y ago
    You normally only hear jokes propagated if they're funny. You have a selection bias.
  - abrahamsen 13y ago
    One type of the jokes derive their fun from an unexpected twist. The fun is the surprise. Another type of jokes reaffirms what the listener already believe. The fun is the comfort of being proven socially right. This was the second type of joke. Those are obviously only funny to those who believe in the cliché the joke is using. As Homer Simpson put it "It's funny because it's true!" (explaining jokes is not funny)
nraynaud 13y ago
It's totally true, and even when it's vitriolic and in the news I would probably just read the title and skip the article.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  Ah, some of them are very high quality though! Take this one for example: Ok, I have a better plan. - you learn to fly by flapping your arms fast enough - you then learn to pee burning gasoline - then, you fly around New York, setting everybody you see on fire, until people make you emperor. Sounds like a good plan, no? http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5299.html http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5299.html No matter how many times I read that, I always laugh.
  - rmccue 13y ago
    I love Linus' followup to this later: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 linux@horizon.com wrote: > > > But perhaps slightly impractical. > > There are just few laws of physics it violates. Yeah, yeah. You avoided a few laws of phsyics of your own. [...] My plan was more interesting, I feel. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5308.html http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5308.html

by jlgreco 13y ago

Funny, though it is abundantly clear that you are not familiar with Linus's standard tone and vocabulary. A Linus email doesn't typically make news unless it is vitriolic. You have a selection bias.

swcool888 13y ago

Agree!

asdfologist 13y ago

It's called a joke.

michaelhoffman 13y ago
Aren't jokes usually funny?
- nraynaud 13y ago
  funniness is about the couple sender/receiver, not an intrinsic quality of the joke.
- Ziomislaw 13y ago
  I found it funny (though I stopped using Linux some time ago, maybe that is the reason?)
- eevee 13y ago
  You normally only hear jokes propagated if they're funny. You have a selection bias.
- abrahamsen 13y ago
  One type of the jokes derive their fun from an unexpected twist. The fun is the surprise. Another type of jokes reaffirms what the listener already believe. The fun is the comfort of being proven socially right. This was the second type of joke. Those are obviously only funny to those who believe in the cliché the joke is using. As Homer Simpson put it "It's funny because it's true!" (explaining jokes is not funny)

nraynaud 13y ago

It's totally true, and even when it's vitriolic and in the news I would probably just read the title and skip the article.

jlgreco 13y ago
Ah, some of them are very high quality though! Take this one for example: Ok, I have a better plan. - you learn to fly by flapping your arms fast enough - you then learn to pee burning gasoline - then, you fly around New York, setting everybody you see on fire, until people make you emperor. Sounds like a good plan, no? http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5299.html http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5299.html No matter how many times I read that, I always laugh.
- rmccue 13y ago
  I love Linus' followup to this later: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 linux@horizon.com wrote: > > > But perhaps slightly impractical. > > There are just few laws of physics it violates. Yeah, yeah. You avoided a few laws of phsyics of your own. [...] My plan was more interesting, I feel. http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5308.html http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0506/5308.html