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Probably not as bad as if your last name is Null. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ In the early 80s I worked with a guy
by jackhack 8y ago
Probably not as bad as if your last name is Null.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
In the early 80s I worked with a guy who wanted an unlisted phone number (back in the days of paper telephone directories). He was really miffed at the idea that the phone company would charge him an extra $10 (or similar) per year for this "service". ("Ten dollars to NOT do something?!? That's extortion!") He couldn't believe this so he asked for a list of service charges which they mailed to his home. Apparently changing your name was free. So, for several years you could call "Kirk, James T., Capt." I guess he showed them.
Bonus: saved $10 per year.
Extra bonus: frequent crank calls at all hours, for free.
Funny thing is I can't remember his real name.
- maxerickson 8y agoWas it Leonard Nimoy?
- qume 8y agoWow that was downvoted. I guess these people aren't aware of Nimoys extensive practical jokes with Shatner. But even so, why would anyone downvote this?
- driverdan 8y agoBecause jokes are generally frowned upon.
- maxerickson 8y agoYep, this thread is meant for substantive discussion of Butts and I ruined it.
- davidw 8y agoUnoriginal or not funny ones; if they're unique and not some lame meme, they'll often get upvoted
- maxerickson 8y agoThe mods discourage humor because it tends to metastasize into tedious offtopic threads, which I guess is true enough. Readers think they punish bad jokes and reward good ones, but the stupid Butts pun is doing great while the absurdist gem about Leonard Nimoy secretly wanting to be Kirk and living it out for a year in the white pages (and then someone working with him forgetting his name!) was nuked from orbit.
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoThe humor just has to be dry enough to maintain plausible deniability. Kind of like flirting in a corporate setting
- excalibur 8y agoOr rubbing your eyes with sandpaper.
- jacobush 8y agoIt's the only way to be sure!
- Timmah 8y agoThat was the HN of yore. Now it's much closer to Reddit circa 2011. Reddit is now Facebook circa 2010. (I don't know what fb is these days, but it doesn't sound good). The mods here should have capped new accounts years ago and permanently welded the lid closed.
- dang 8y agoPeople have been complaining about HN turning into Reddit for at least 10 years. In fact, the HN guidelines used to ask people not to complain about HN turning into Reddit ("it's a semi-noob illusion"). But when we augmented the guidelines a year or so ago, we took out that one to preserve brevity.