are jokes funny if they need explaining?
In this correspondent’s opinion, yes, but only somtimes. The joke here (that I laughed my ass off btw, which proves what a nerd I am …) is that by naming her son “Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;” the mother caused the school’s records to be lost, because the ‘) completes the Insert phrase (for example, INSERT INTO `Students` (`last_name`, `first_name`) VALUES (’Jones’, ‘Robert’) ), and the ; starts a new command, which is “DROP TABLE Students”, which deletes the table in the database named “Students”.
So, in summary, funny.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I’m sorry, I don’t think we can be friends anymore :p
June 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
“Incidently, his sister Suzie’); DROP DATABASE INCLUDING BACKUPS
NOPROMPT; COMMIT;
was expelled.”
so imagine how little you could be friends with HIM!
June 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I laughed too….. but for a different reason. I remember what it was like working “on the other side”.
I also remember when we tried to enrol a boy from overseas (Country shall remain nameless) which caused a computer problem. His name was Christian. So what you ask?
It turns out that he only had one name, but the computer wouldn’t allow a single name entry. ie. without a family name! So we tried ‘Christian Christian’……… We thought that was a great solution!
Unfotunately the student didn’t, and cracked right up, throwing the proverbial wobbly right in the waiting area insisting that he had only a single name….and get used to it!
I forget how we overcame the problem………….
Having a poor memory does have it’s blessings after all!