Eunuchs vs Unix

[Prudence (imported)]

Two Unix vs Eunuchs jokes:

Joan, on an airplane, strikes up a conversation with the geeky computer programmer sitting next to her.

“Where are you going?” asks Joan.

“I’m going to San Jose,” says the geek, “to a UNIX convention.”

Later, Joan’s husband picks her up at the airport. “How was the flight?” he asks.

“Oh, fine,” says Joan. “I sat next to this guy I felt really sorry for.”

“Why’d you feel sorry for him?”

“He didn’t have any testicles.”

“What?!” says the husband. “And just how did you learn *that* ?”

“Because,” says Joan, “he said he was going to a eunuchs’ convention."

Humanties Major: Hi. Nice to meet you. What do you study in your classes?

Computer Science Major: I do a lot of work with Unix.

Humanties Major: Oh those poor men! We should organize a rally to help them.

(for non-English speakers: When spoken, " Unix " sounds very similar to " Eunuchs " in English).

[ylpb7508 (imported)]

LOL. Strange that I never thought of they were homonyms (words that sound alike).

[gandalf (imported)]

ROLOFLOL. Very Good ones

[kastranja (imported)]

Finally, I get it why I am as I am...

Although, I think I might know the word "eunuch" longer than I know UNIX. Probably since before I got my C64.

[cutnbulls2ox (imported)]

Think of all those intact men who have to say daily how they work for all kinds of companies with some kind of unix sounding part of their names. Humiliating to those fully intact men saying I m here for unix or I m the man from unix to everyone they meet lol.

Wonder if it gets some of them thinking and fantasizing about getting nut cut when they have employee meetings of all those unix and calling themselves unix and guys all thinking of how it applies to them ?

Good fiction story plots in that idea.

[JesusA (imported)]

One of the best Dilbert cartoons of all time plays with Unix/Eunuchs. The easiest place to find it on a page with Scott Adams 10 favorites of all the strips he’s produced. It’s at the very bottom of the page as his #1 favorite:

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-dil ... cs-2015-10

[Dave (imported)]

Back in 1998/99, I was assigned to "Jim" one of the good bosses to develop a Performance Management System (which management in its infinite wisdom forbid being shortened to the acronym PMS, for some reason) and while "Jim the boss" and I developed this, Scott Adams published a hardbound book titled "The Dilbert Principle."

So I would work most of the day with the text of what sort of quality management techniques we would use that embodied various legal requirements and then go home and read the "The Dilbert Principle." (mostly while camped on the great porcelain throne waiting for the earth to move beneath me) ... {you may roll your eyes}

I took the book in one day and read it to Jim the Boss. It was devastating. We were definitely in tears of laughter and almost on the floor while moving ourselves for being the same as the words the words in the Dilbert Satire. We were, for that afternoon, two grown men, having way too much fun. . . Several people passed by while we carried on for about an hour. We never explained ourselves or told anyone the truth.

We did, however, weed out the identical language and wrote the new Performance Management System without it.

One more thing -- management banned taping cartoons on office or cubicle walls when it became obvious that the proliferation of Dilbert Cartoons was't all that innocent fun but downright mocking a number of bosses.

All I got to add to that is that the ban didn't improve morale one bit, nor did it reduce the mockery.

added 1: we attempted to name the performance management system -- Pittsburgh Information and Improvement System -- That was banned.

added 2: we tried Pittsburgh ENgineering Improvement System. that was banned, too.