[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

hacker humor a distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found
   among hackers, having the following marked characteristics:

   1. fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor
   having to do with confusion of metalevels see meta. one way to make
   a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "green"
   written on it, or vice-versa note, however, that this is funny only the
   first time.

   2. elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such
   as specifications see write-only memory, standards documents,
   language descriptions see intercal, and even entire scientific
   theories see quantum bogodynamics, computron.

   3. jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre,
   ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises.

   4. fascination with puns and wordplay.

   5. a fondness for apparently mindless humor with subversive currents
   of intelligence in it -- for example, old warner brothers and rocky 
   bullwinkle cartoons, the marx brothers, the early b-52s, and monty
   python's flying circus. humor that combines this trait with elements of
   high camp and slapstick is especially favored.

   6. references to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in
   zen buddhism and less often taoism. see has the x nature,
   discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, koan, ai koans.

   see also filk, retrocomputing, and the portrait of j. random
   hacker in appendix b. if you have an itchy feeling that all six of
   these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly
   difficult to talk about exactly, you are a correct and b responding
   like a hacker. these traits are also recognizable though in a less
   marked form throughout science-fiction fandom.


see also:
meta write-only memory intercal quantum bogodynamics computron has the x nature 
discordianism zen ha ha only serious koan ai koans 
filk retrocomputing appendix b science-fiction fandom 

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