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  |  | #4071 |   | Hacker's Quicky #313: 	Sour Cream -n- Onion Potato Chips 	Microwave Egg Roll 	Chocolate Milk
  |    |  | #4072 |   | hacker, n.: 	A master byter.
  |    |  | #4073 |   | hacker, n.: 	Originally, any person with a knack for coercing stubborn inanimate 	things; hence, a person with a happy knack, later contracted by the 	mythical philosopher Frisbee Frobenius to the common usage, 'hack'. 	In olden times, upon completion of some particularly atrocious body 	of coding that happened to work well, culpable programmers would gather 	in a small circle around a first edition of Knuth's Best Volume I by 	candlelight, and proceed to get very drunk while sporadically rending 	the following ditty:
  		Hacker's Fight Song
  		He's a Hack!  He's a Hack! 		He's a guy with the happy knack! 		Never bungles, never shirks, 		Always gets his stuff to work!
  All take a drink (important!)
  |    |  | #4074 |   | Hale Mail Rule, The: 	When you are ready to reply to a letter, you will lack at least 	one of the following: 		(a) A pen or pencil or typewriter. 		(b) Stationery. 		(c) Postage stamp. 		(d) The letter you are answering.
  |    |  | #4075 |   | half-done, n.: 	This is the best way to eat a kosher dill -- when it's still crunchy, 	light green, yet full of garlic flavor.  The difference between this 	and the typical soggy dark green cucumber corpse is like the 	difference between life and death.
  	You may find it difficult to find a good half-done kosher dill there 	in Seattle, so what you should do is take a cab out to the airport, 	fly to New York, take the JFK Express to Jay Street-Borough Hall, 	transfer to an uptown F, get off at East Broadway, walk north on 	Essex (along the park), make your first left onto Hester Street, walk 	about fifteen steps, turn ninety degrees left, and stop.  Say to the 	man, "Let me have a nice half-done."  Worth the trouble, wasn't it? 		-- Arthur Naiman, "Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish"
  |    |  | #4076 |   | Hand, n.: 	A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and 	commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. 		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
  |    |  | #4077 |   | handshaking protocol, n: 	A process employed by hostile hardware devices to initate a 	terse but civil dialogue, which, in turn, is characterized by 	occasional misunderstanding, sulking, and name-calling.
  |    |  | #4078 |   | Hangover, n.: 	The burden of proof.
  |    |  | #4079 |   | hangover, n.: 	The wrath of grapes.
  |    |  | #4080 |   | Hanlon's Razor: 	Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained 	by stupidity.
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