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Feb 10 2009

Laughing in code

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I am not sure that this will make any sort of sense world wide, but Israeli coders should have a chuckle or two over this:

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10 Feb 2009
13:47 PM

mark

or only half of them :)

10 Feb 2009
14:05 PM

Michael McCurrey

Nope, doesn't make much sense in the Western States. Can you fill us in?

10 Feb 2009
14:07 PM

Ayende Rahien

In Hebrew, there is a common saying about out of the way places.

In the end of the world, turn left and continue forward.

10 Feb 2009
14:26 PM

cowgaR

ah, I thought it is one of my favorite Blackfield's songs... (singer is Israeli)

10 Feb 2009
16:39 PM

Bunter

end/of/the/world?visit=Milliways

might be more universal

10 Feb 2009
17:20 PM

Christopher Bennage

@Bunter Now the Milliways joke I get! =)

10 Feb 2009
17:50 PM

Dan

And I thought it has something to do with the upcoming elections... :D

10 Feb 2009
22:14 PM

Avish

I thought you were referring to an unknown Israeli celebrity by the name of Uri Marker.

Also consider: public static Uri Geller { get; set; }

10 Feb 2009
23:52 PM

Sebastian Jancke

As a European I do not know this, jokes in code are not always a good idea, are they? ;-)

change it to "null://middle/of/nowhere" perhaps? (Might have seen that in MT I think)

-Sebastian

11 Feb 2009
12:37 PM

Rafal

The rest of the world can have some fun just watching how Israeli coders decide why the joke is funny...

12 Feb 2009
01:50 AM

Kamran

I also thought it was a reference to the Israeli elections until I saw the comments :)

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