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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2012-03-31

"I also have a UDP joke. But you might not get it." -- @jonathanstray, 2012-03-29 (thanks to @rmd for retweeting it)

[Yes, this is obscure. To the non-geeks or wrong-type-of-geeks: sorry, I'll try to quote something more generally comprehensible next time.]

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neonvincent: For posts about Usenet (Fluffy)

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posted by [personal profile] neonvincent at 03:31pm on 2012-03-31
UDP as in Usenet Death Penalty?
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posted by [personal profile] pickledginger at 04:01pm on 2012-03-31
Grin. User Datagram Protocol, as in packets, as in transmission and reception (or not) of data in a network, as in lost (or indefinitely delayed) in dataspace ...

... which is probably far more info than you needed to make the connection. A little context can be a very good thing, especially in a world so flooded.with acronyms.

But it is a clever joke. If it had come in an infotechy context, I might have gotten it right away. As it was, the meaning took a while to catch up ...
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posted by [personal profile] pickledginger at 04:03pm on 2012-03-31
D'oh. That was humor, too. I am having a very literal (and clumsy-fingered) day.
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