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07 Feb 2011, 1:46 am
Nebuchan wrote:
Orwell wrote:
Nebuchan wrote:
Orwell wrote:
Tensu wrote:
We have been Un-Jobed in that Steve is, for the time being, not runnng apple. The humor derives from the idea that, in the abscense of Steve Jobs Macs switch to DOS.
At least I thik that's the joke.
At least I thik that's the joke.
But that doesn't make sense. All Apple products are still running BSD Unix. And how is the absence of Jobs anything to do with DOS? Steve Jobs worked on DOS back in the day.
People. Sheesh. All of them worked on DOS back in the day. The joke is that in removing Steve Jobs from the picture your mac would suddenly start running DOS. The point is that no one would ever expect that to happen given the fact that mac's shouldn't be running DOS (and it just can't happen... until it does
). Wouldn't it be a surprise if somehow or another your mac suddenly ran DOS. It wouldn't make sense... but a lot of things in this world don't make sense. A mac with the blue screen of death?! AAAAAAHHHH! 
I still don't get it. How does Jobs being gone cause Macs to run DOS? I mean... nothing runs DOS anymore. You can choose to run DOS on an Intel Mac if you really want to (better to do that in an emulator, if at all) but modern versions of Windows aren't DOS-based, and haven't been in a decade.
And Macs can BSOD. Just install Vista (which is not DOS-based) in Boot Camp.
You can't be this... ignorant, can you? It is a joke. Not all jokes are literal. Snap, snap! Put 1 and 3 together... 13? 4? B? Just pick whichever way of interpreting it that your mind deems best and run with it. Choosing for something to not make sense is choosing to reject the logic your brain should be naturally creating. If it is not doing so then I am possibly considering this a sign you are dipping below 100... Come on, sheeshhhhhhh...
i have read threw this thread and i get the joke even less then when i started.
07 Feb 2011, 2:25 am
Nebuchan wrote:
You can't be this... ignorant, can you? It is a joke. Not all jokes are literal. Snap, snap! Put 1 and 3 together... 13? 4? B? Just pick whichever way of interpreting it that your mind deems best and run with it. Choosing for something to not make sense is choosing to reject the logic your brain should be naturally creating. If it is not doing so then I am possibly considering this a sign you are dipping below 100... Come on, sheeshhhhhhh...
It is not a matter of me being "ignorant." It's a matter of it being a lousy joke, because there is no way in which it makes any sense. I point you to all the other posters who did not get it. I mean, "You've been un-Jobbed" might be the start to a halfway-decent joke (apparently involving both unemployement and S.J. going on medical leave, based on your posts, and this combination could make for a pun somewhere) but the punchline ("Your mac is now running DOS") is a stupid non-sequitor. It's not funny, it's not a clever pun, I see no way in which the DOS reference makes a joke at all.
If by "dipping below 100" you are insulting my intelligence with a reference to IQ... IQ has almost no meaning when applied to autistics, but the silly little tests put me in the top 1% of the population.
07 Feb 2011, 4:52 am
08 Feb 2011, 10:15 pm
Orwell wrote:
Nebuchan wrote:
You can't be this... ignorant, can you? It is a joke. Not all jokes are literal. Snap, snap! Put 1 and 3 together... 13? 4? B? Just pick whichever way of interpreting it that your mind deems best and run with it. Choosing for something to not make sense is choosing to reject the logic your brain should be naturally creating. If it is not doing so then I am possibly considering this a sign you are dipping below 100... Come on, sheeshhhhhhh...
It is not a matter of me being "ignorant." It's a matter of it being a lousy joke, because there is no way in which it makes any sense. I point you to all the other posters who did not get it. I mean, "You've been un-Jobbed" might be the start to a halfway-decent joke (apparently involving both unemployement and S.J. going on medical leave, based on your posts, and this combination could make for a pun somewhere) but the punchline ("Your mac is now running DOS") is a stupid non-sequitor. It's not funny, it's not a clever pun, I see no way in which the DOS reference makes a joke at all.
If by "dipping below 100" you are insulting my intelligence with a reference to IQ... IQ has almost no meaning when applied to autistics, but the silly little tests put me in the top 1% of the population.
Do you want your mac to run dos?
Yes? No? Maybe so?
It's not a pun... And, by the way, it's "non sequitur"... Google should have helped you with that...
Once your mac are belong to DOS, you will understand the real possibility in such statements. But, until then, I cannot help thy IQ. Just because you're autistic doesn't mean you can't be an extra-retard autistic... sometimes it happens.
And sometimes it doesn't... then mix in a little mild narcissism and here I am... preparing you for the day when when DOS returns... and it is coming soooooooooonnnnnn... da ne? ( I like ...'s, just in case you didn't notice
)
08 Feb 2011, 10:17 pm
09 Feb 2011, 12:07 am
Nebuchan wrote:
Do you want your mac to run dos? Yes? No? Maybe so?
Yes? No? Maybe so? I don't have a Mac, and I run Linux.
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It's not a pun... And, by the way, it's "non sequitur"... Google should have helped you with that...
So my spell checker's not on. Big freaking deal. If it's not a pun, what is it? Where is the joke? The punchline makes no sense at all.
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But, until then, I cannot help thy IQ. Just because you're autistic doesn't mean you can't be an extra-retard autistic... sometimes it happens.
Quit being a dick. I'm on full academic scholarship at a top-50 university, and my IQ is high enough for Mensa. I am not "ret*d."
09 Feb 2011, 12:40 am
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