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[plonq]

One would think I'd have learned after the "I fart in your general direction" incident, but my puerile nature snuck through again when I wrote another program a few years ago.

"Plonq, we need you to write a program to track if we're humping overloaded cars."

"Hee hee.  You said humping."

"Bear in mind that the hump scale is not certified for liquids."

"So you only want dry humping?  Hee hee.  Humping."

It's only natural in a program of this kind that the functions and subs would send back return codes with flags like, "Oh baby!" and "Is it in yet?"  Likewise you'll find lots of variables with names like Yiff and Boink.

Of course four years later they come to me asking for the source code so that they can compare it with some changes they are implementing on the mainframe.

*le sigh

There's nothing outrageously offencive in this source code, but we have some people around this company with awfully thin skins.  Looks like my next couple of hours are going to be spent "purifying" some source code.  Bleah.

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[funos.livejournal.com]

I presume tamper checks prevent editing the binary directly? (not that it matters in this case...)

(ah. The days of hex editing the teacher's DOS disk to return rude error messages...)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Fortunately it's an interpreted language rather than a compiled one. Also I'm the one who maintains the server that it's stored on, so I get to go in and modify it any way that I like (how do you think those things got in there in the first place? ;)