OT: Idea for Python T-shirt

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Wed May 12 09:38:31 EDT 2004


In article <pas3a0lfr225h23h2gvlrr3dnug1rrt2p8 at 4ax.com>,
Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <tzot at sil-tec.gr> wrote:
>On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:03:13 -0400, rumours say that Peter Hansen
><peter at engcorp.com> might have written:
>
>>> [snip "nibbles exploding with desire"]
>>>
>>>
>>>>Also, I don't get it...
>>>
>>>
>>> Based on the hungarian phrase-book sketch from the Flying Circus...  "my
>>> nipples explode with desire!"
>>
>>Yeah, that part was obvious (to an MP fan).  But why the bit-eating
>>snake then?  It's gratuitous at that point.  Oh, wait, were the ones
>>and zeros supposed to be "exploded nibbles"?  That's a reach...
>
>Well, I won't pretend that my pun was cleverly funny, I'll just say that
>I thought it was simply funny... My whole idea was of Python processing
>happily data, which grouped in fours were nibbles, and there came the
>pun of s/p/b/g as Tim said; the "desire" instead of "delight" part of
>course was a misteak due to weak memory.

   Actually, the first thing I thought of was the
after-dinner mint scene from "Meaning of Life".

        Regards.        Mel.



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