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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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[mwalimu.livejournal.com]

Brings to mind a conversation I had with my oldest a while back.

"Do you remember when we stopped at Bailey Yard and watched them humping railroad cars?"

"Dad! That's gross!"

"No, really, that's what it's called. Humping."

"Well that's just... wrong."

I must admit, however, that the term has given me some interesting mental images. Ones that make me wonder what happened to the cars that are stenciled with "Do Not Hump".

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I had been working here for a couple of years before I learned what it meant to hump a car. I'd seen some of the cars stenciled with "do not hump", and I'd seen some cars with a "do not hump" switch message in the computer, but beyond being mildly amused, I had no idea what it meant.

Later somebody enlightened me on the difference between humping and flat-switching. I'd only know about flat-switching up to that point.