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Come on, anybody that has Christine Chenoweth as a sister can't be all bad...


Meet George Jetson...


Acting like Scientology.


Raises hand, still have a VM with Delphi 7 that is opened once a week or so....


Only once a week? Can I have your job, please? I get to use that and 5 on a daily basis.


The other side of the drug culture. They're some very nasty, and well armed folks using public lands to grow pot.


Mad Magazine, Dr Demento, and Monty Python; these things lie in the heart of almost every 45+ year old programmer.


I'm twenty-something, and those are my comedy 'bases'.

Perhaps it has something to do with the types of humor?

Monty Python, for example, tends to create comedy from the over-exaggeration of pure logic. I think we, as programmers, tend to do that anyway; to see it portrayed on the silver screen is great, and maybe we also get a sense of relief from realizing that we aren't the only ones coming up with such silliness, albeit mentally.

Same sort of traits abound in Dr.Demento and MAD. 'Wet Dream' and most of the 'Lighter side of...' series are similar. Take a logical premise, and take it to the point of silliness.

RIP. I have fond memories of MAD, and it definitely helped created the person I am today.


Easy there :) I'm 31 and love those as well.


And National Lampoon.


Every time I see one of these videos I have two thoughts. One, insane never could do. Two, that's what flying in my dreams looks like, I can completely see why they do what they do.


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