Agronesia

In Slashdot, one of the biggest software/computer news site, one popular kind of joke in the comments is the Soviet Russian joke. The premise is simple: The majority of readers on sites like Slashdot are American. Russia is of course a country with a supposedly very different culture, so everything there must be different! Therefore, to make this kind of joke comment the news or reply the last comment with “In Soviet Russia …” and insert something very absurd there.

Let me teach you. I’m a Slashdot lurker so I feel I’ve got some expertise in this area…

A: In Thailand, one Indonesian student threw a trash on the road and got fined!
B: Well, in Indonesia, even the police throws trash anywhere.
C: In Soviet Russia, the trash throws you!!!

The key is just to make some absurd statement

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I just got a stomach problem some days ago, and that made me think about the types of stomach problems that exist, and ones that could possibly exist! The principle that I will use here is the inherent symmetry in the universe. On the large scale, we have day and night, male and female (OK, OK, female and male!). Going deep down we have G with its pair C, and A which loves T (sometimes U comes to wreck their relationship though). We even have the electron and positron pair! Whew…

OK, first we have nausea which causes vomiting:

See, the food goes out from the stomach through your mouth. Do we have its counterpart? Of course, that eating!

(If you can see where where this conversation is heading and doesn’t feel comfortable, please do not continue)

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When you switch to a Linux distribution, you might be a little frustrated by how hard it is to get a virus running on your system. However, don’t worry because once you familiarize yourself with building a program from the source, it’s actually not difficult.

Get the URL to download the virus source code (Google it!), and then type these commands:

wget http://malware.agronesia.net/virus/rontok.tar.gz
tar xzvf rontok.tar.gz
cd rontok
./configure
make
make infect

Some distributions like Ubuntu makes it easy by using a package manager. Go see their documentation!

(idea from the comments at Slashdot)

By Anonymous coward on Slashdot, with some modifications:

Teacher: “Did you write this whole thing yourself?”
Student: “Yes, of course!”
Teacher: “Are you sure”
Student: “Yes, 100%”
Teacher: “Well, a huge chunk of your report is straight from Wikipedia. I already checked it.”
Student: “Um, yeah, well, um I wrote that Wikipedia page.”

Luckily in Wikipedia we have complete log of edits, so that claims like that can be checked :).