[QUOTE=Xyzzy;537742]Emacs: An operating system disguised as a text editor.[/QUOTE]
sendmail: a Turing complete programming language disguised as an MTA.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;537742]Emacs: An operating system disguised as a text editor.[/QUOTE]Close but no cigar.

Standard Emacs doesn't come with device drivers, etc. The additional software needed to convert Emacs into a fully functional operating system is quite small.

[url]http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html[/url] shows how Emacs can be used on a raw Linux kernel. I seem to remember seeing an even smaller solution but can no longer find it.

[QUOTE=Nick;537751]sendmail: a Turing complete programming language disguised as an MTA.[/QUOTE]Please don't remind me.

Writing sendmail.cf files to inter-convert Coloured Book (as then used on JANET), uucp and RFC 821 scarred me for life.

The PTSD symptoms have largely faded of late.

Primary: a very costly, long and arduous process of determining which candidates are secondary or tertiary. See also farce and fraud.

I guess US primaries are all about reducibility...

[quote]I don't give a hoot in Hell how you do it, you just get me to the Primary, ya hear![/quote] -- Major T.J. "King" Kong, [i]Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb[/i]

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;538942]-- Major T.J. "King" Kong, [i]Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb[/i][/QUOTE]

Besides all the other [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes]great lines[/url] - "our precious bodily fluids," "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", I love the bit toward the end where Dr. Merkwürdigliebe explains his plan for mankind's surviving the nuclear holocaust by sequestering its key members in deep nuke-proof underground silos:
[quote][i][Strangelove's plan for post-nuclear war survival involves living underground with a 10:1 female-to-male ratio][/i]

General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.[/quote]

Just seen on Twitter:

[B]Ignoranus[/B]. [I]adj[/I]. Someone who is both stupid and an asshole.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;538969]Besides all the other [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes]great lines[/url] - "our precious bodily fluids," "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!", I love the bit toward the end where Dr. Merkwürdigliebe explains his plan for mankind's surviving the nuclear holocaust by sequestering its key members in deep nuke-proof underground silos:[/QUOTE]
One of my favorite parts is the following exchange:[quote][b]General "Buck" Turgidson:[/b] Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he [i]had[/i] issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.

[beat]

[b]General "Buck" Turgidson:[/b] Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.

[b]President Merkin Muffley:[/b] There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.

[b]General "Buck" Turgidson:[/b] We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.

[b]President Merkin Muffley:[/b] General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you [i]assured[/i] me there was [i]no[/i] possibility of such a thing [i]ever[/i] occurring!

[b]General "Buck" Turgidson:[/b] Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.[/quote]

jiujitsu:
noun
1. The gentle art of folding clothes while people are still in them.
2. Involuntary yoga.

(from my daughter, after reading this)


verb.
3. what mom does to you if you don't clean your room
("I am going to jiujits u")