• Your mom is so FAT Microsoft are chasing her for a patent violation.
• Your mom is so ugly it’s just best to forego the “V” in MVC with her.
• Your mom is so repetitive you need an anti-spam filter to talk with her.
• Your mom is so ugly they tried to build a wrapper around her.
• Your mom is so ugly, you were made using .Clone() because every man threw AccesDeniedException at her.
• Your mom’s so public that she violates encapsulation.
• Your mom is so fat, she can do pair programming alone.
• Your mom is so conservative that I get AccessDeniedException.
• Your mom is so promiscuous the RIAA are suing her.
• Your mom is so fat that she swallows all exceptions.
• Your mom is so dumb her brain runs on compact framework.
• Your mom is so ugly, I wouldn’t talk to her even via proxy.
• Your mom is so disorganised she lives on a heap.
• Your mama is so fat that figuring out when she will stop eating will solve the Halting Problem.
• Your mama’s so ignorant, Dell outsourced all its tech support to her.
• Your mom is so fat, she got permission to write 150 chars on twitter.
• Your mom is so hot, they named Milf View Controller after her.
• Your mom is so ugly, she gets her own cubicle at an open space conference.
• your mom is so fat, she has her own extensibility model
• Your momma is so fat i have to horizontal scroll to see all of her.
• Your mom is so fat, you need 128 bit integers to describe her weight!
• Your momma told me you were an unhandled exception when I was with her last night.
• Your mama is so fat that when she stepped on the scale, it said –1.
• Your mom is so big she needs her own namespace.
• Your mom is so slow, I have to use Thread.Sleep(int.MaxValue) just so she can keep up.
• Your mom is so ugly, the decorator pattern couldn’t fix it!
• Your mom is so stupid, she’s still looking for the any key.
• Your mom is so ugly that Bing had to start filtering out her pictures in certain countries.
• Your mom is so promiscuous, when I tried to mount her, it said
  /dev/yourmom: device already in use
• Your mom pours sea salt down her pants to keep the crabs fresh
• Your mom is so fat Bloatwear is her clothing line
• Your mom is so fat I called her and got a Stack Overflow
• Your mom is so promiscuous, your family tree is recursive.
• Your mom is so fat Google haven’t finished indexing her.

XKCD can be variable in quality (or maybe I just don’t understand all the jokes), but it has this cautionary tale about Linux:

Here is some advice on how to behave properly on internet forums:

http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=69ab804d-9b3c-714c-30d7-ff0008ca4067
How To Behave On An Internet Forum

This will be my last post of the year, so here is something fun

Have a great new year everyone. I hope that 2008 brings you the best!

Continuing the season’s diversions, XKCD has some excellent cartoons, a lot of them reflect the reality of people with a technical profession and are passionate about it. And this one is no exception.