Humor

Some of my favorite quotes. I also have another 20K of jokes and stories accumlated over the years, which I will eventually put on the Web once I get permission from all parties involved.

I've served two terms at MIT as a 6.001 TA (The Struggle and Intimidation of Computer Programming):

Begin Bad 6.001 jokes/songs

(to the tune of yellow submarine)
As we cdr down the list,
Cons-ing up an answer stream,
Oh how much I love LISP
And recursive subroutines.

--refrain--

We all live in recursive subroutines,
recursive subroutines,
recursive subroutines,
We all live in recursive subroutines,
recursive subroutines,
recursive subroutines,
-- me and some other people

GIRLS JUST WANNA DEFUN

I can't wake up, in the morning
Cause of what I've been doing for most of the night.
Teacher don't you know my program is done?
And girls just wanna defun.

The phone rings, in the middle of the night
Advisor screams, "Watcha gonna do with your life?"
Patrick*, how I relish double-oh-one**!
And girls just wanna defun.

They just wanna, just wanna, yeah
Girls just wanna defun.

Some people say
A beautiful girl can't tool all night like
The rest of the world.
I wanna be the one to welcome the sun.
And girls just wanna defun.

*Winston, ai professor, MIT
**6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  -- unknown

Q: KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK 
A: Who's there? 
Q: Recursion. 
A: Recursion who? 
   Q: KNOCK KNOCK 
   A: Who's there? 
   Q: Recursion. 
   A: Recursion who? 
      Q: KNOCK  
      A: Who's there? 
      Q: Recursion. 
      A: Recursion who? 
  -- ncramer@bbn.com 

Meta-circular Evaluator? But I just
Meta-circular Evaluator? But I just
Meta-circular Evaluator? But I just
-- old joke

End Bad 001 jokes/songs