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.

This entry was written by Chuckler, posted on June 24, 2008 at 1:12 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Lara
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 2:33 pm | Permalink

    I’m sorry, I don’t think we can be friends anymore :p

  2. Chuckler
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    Oh yeah? Well John emailed me privately to assert:
    “Incidently, his sister Suzie’); DROP DATABASE INCLUDING BACKUPS
    NOPROMPT; COMMIT;
    was expelled.”
    so imagine how little you could be friends with HIM!

  3. Papasmurf
    Posted June 24, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

    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!