It was supposed to be easy, just a couple
- It was supposed to be easy, just a couple of hours of work cleaning up the website. As soon as I looked at the code, I realized that this was no ordinary
- first effort at writing code called spaghetti code. This was much much worse. This was "Spaghetti O's," every like formed a loop. Small Loops, Big Loops. Loops inside loops.
- However, nothing compares to the Code of Count Chocula. Here was a cocoa-esque supposed random collections of symbols and marshmellows that almost caused the cold war to
- end in an exchange of nuclear whistles. The soviets thought they'd cracked the cereal code. Khrushchev collected all the prizes and saw a pattern when general mills introduced
- "Yellow Cake Uranium-O's" which was a huge success. All the kiddies enjoyed the feeling of warmth spreading through them whenever they ate a bowl, and they're Mom-Approved.
- (Well, more like in Imam-Approved.) Plus they got Plankton to sing for their cereal's commercial: "F is for Fire that burns your intestines. U's for 'Uranium-O's'. N is for
- Nigeria, home of the e-mail scammers that could use a good bombin'. G is for grotesque, what it looks like in your mouth. U is your ur mom, how the internets types. S is for
- spam, the more the better. Nigerian hackers, preying on the young and the old. They would work 20 hour days to irritate the majority and trap the gullible. "click here, you've
- got nothing to lose but all the money you ever earned in your pitiable little life, while we have a chance to loot you and then dance on the cadaver of what used to be your
- druid level 72 tiger wood-shamen, leaving you with nothing but a holiday promotional snowglobe charm of +3 Luck that expires in 24 hours and a 3 week free trial of Netflix.
- Started
- 2011-03-25 18:08:15
- Finished
- 2012-10-21 13:38:22
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SlimWhitman Oct 21 2012 @ 14:43
Collect all four nuclear whistles in Yellow Cake Uranium-O's or trade with your friends. Collect 20 Box tops and order this nifty miniature atomic reactor.* *Some assembly required. Only available while supplies last. Control rods purchased separately.