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Programming Joke

A wife asks her husband, a programmer, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6?”
A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk and his wife asks, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”
He replies, “They had eggs.”

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lerlo 8 Jan 30
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She forgot to specify, "if they have eggs, get 6 eggs." ?

I would have brought back 6 cartons of milk too!?

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Level 8

Right. I see this kind of thing happening all the time.We so need to pay more attention to how we use our words.

or how we buy our milk

@lerlo yes exactly ?
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Like many IT people I am a linear / literal / concrete thinker, and can, shall we say, miss certain metaphors. But I'm not that bad. I don't think.

well we know the wife doesn't speak punctuation when she asks questions... 🙂
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Level 8

This is one of those jokes I really like, but a lot of people I've told it to don't get it or don't think it's funny. (I've always heard it as being a logician, but programmer works just as well.)

in the eye of the beholder so to speak...
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