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- [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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