Please help me with my Father's Day present!

[rexnezzy]

Hi guys and gals-

My father is a senior programmer analyst, and he LOVES puns. For Father's Day, I really, really want to make him a present with a good joke on it in a programming language that he understands. I looked up jokes in programming languages on Google, but I'm facing two problems: Most of the jokes are in English syntax, not programming language; also, there are no explanations for people like me who aren't in on the joke (so I don't know if it's appropriate or not).

If you guys know of any jokes or puns that are in programming language, please respond to this thread! It would make my dad SO happy because the whole rest of our family - myself included - is very right-brain and conceptual, and we've never really understood his work. I'm an English and art person, so the one thing I do understand and connect with in his work is the idea of linguistics, and it amazes me that he's memorized and can read and interpret all of these different languages. I'd like to show him that I appreciate his work and his sense of humor and I think this would be a perfect way to do it. And if you could just explain the joke to me on a basic level I'd appreciate it greatly.

Thank you so much in advance for your time and help!

Rex



If this helps at all, I'm going to copy/paste the "technical skills" portion of his resume, which is kind of long, so bear with me:


LANGUAGES/SOFTWARE:
Visual Basic/VB.Net
COBOL/COBOL 2
CICS
PL/I
BAL
Assembler
Microsoft Project (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Visio
Crystal Reports
Delphi
Panvalet

WEB APPLICATION DESIGN:
HTML/DHTML
CSS scripts
JavaScript
Java
Microsoft (VBScript, ASP/ASP.Net, ADO/ADO.Net)
Adobe Photoshop (Illustrator, GoLive, Pagemaker)
XML

OPERATING SYSTEMS/PROTOCOLS:
Windows
MS-DOS
UNIX
OS MVS/MVT
DOS/VSE
TCP/IP
OS JCL/JES2

DATABASES/FILE METHODS:
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Access
DB2
IMS DB/DC
VSAM
ISAM
FoxPro

COMPUTER PLATFORMS:
IBM Mainframe
IBM PC and Networks
NCR Tower
AS/400
Wang
Stratus
Prime

[Alex Vincent]

About six months ago, I bought a black t-shirt with only the word "++ungood" printed on it. If you get him that, play the famous Macintosh ad with the Olympic hammer throw first.

[rexnezzy]

Cool, so I get (and dig!) the Newspeak reference, but how does "++" function in programming language? A lot of the jokes I see seem to function on that.

[Alex Vincent]

++ is an operator that means "increment by one". In Newspeak, it's just "double plus". So you get "doubleplusungood", which is basically an expletive.

[rihont]

i think whatever you do for him, he will be very pappy course you remember his birthday.
i envy you so much because my dad has been passed by 6 years ago.