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Tag: humor
Ads gone wrong
If you are looking for something to make you smile, go ahead and check out these ads, all of which went wrong one way or the other. Some of those are due to ignorance and cultural differences, but one or two are quite intentional, I think.
Corny network engineer jokes
A colleague sent me a link to this list of network engineer humor. If you are not a networking guy, you should probably skip altogether, cause these are pretty geeky. I haven’t got all of them, but a few that I did are actually quite good.
“Knock Knock” “who’s there?” “Denial of Service Attack” “Den…?” “Sn(kRzIhAw]BoKaoOv0liZPhl~FaLoaSa*AgSeaLp|ExleT…” – @MattGordonSmith
An IPv6 packet walks into a bar. Nobody talks to him. @fsmontenegro
A tcp packet walks in to a bar and says “I want a beer”, barman says “you want a beer?” and tcp packet says “yes, a beer” @stevie_chambers
A Network Engineers tell a joke in a full bar. One man laughs. They start talking about NX-OS and have a blast. @icemarkom
Robert Liston – a genius surgeon
Wikipedia lists some of the most famous operations performed by Robert Liston. Among them the only surgery in history with 300% mortality rate:
Liston’s most famous case
Amputated the leg in under 21⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene, they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright.
That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.
Via oper.ru.
Goodluck Jonathan
For years Google has been working hard to bring relevant information to the user faster and faster. One of the many features they’ve implemented was a quick look-up of a country’s president. Just search for “russia president” or “chine president” and you’ll get name right there, on the first page of the results. While playing around with this feature, I realized that I had no idea what’s the name of the Nigerian president is, even though I’ve heard plenty about that country. Apparently, the Nigerian president‘s name is Goodluck Jonathan.
