Nerd Put-Downs
Copyright (c) 1994 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
From Open Computing March 1994
So the guy sitting across from you mutters to himself and frantically chews on Animal Crackers all day. And when you go to the train station at night, a programmer -who used to work for your very company- stands on the platform screaming code commands at the passing trains.
You could say these people are 1) not playing with a full deck (the original of such insults), 2) mentally challenged (approved by the Californian board of political correctness), or that they 3) are a few fries short of a Happy Meal (America's current favourite all-purpose insult). Or you could be more creative with your put-downs. Here, in a list compiled by Alan Silverstein, asj@asj.fc.hp.com, are some techie "fulldeckisms":
o $HOME = /dev/null
o 3K RAM free, no EMS
o A 10K brain attached to a 9600 baud mouth
o A 3.5" drive, but data on punch cards
o An 8080 in a 68000 environment
o An Apple IIe on UUCP
o An XT clone in a Pentium zone
o Been napping in front of the ion shield again
o In need of a ROM upgrade
o Pins 2 and 3 (RS-232) permanently connected to ground
o RS-232C brain with a DIN connector
o Running at 300 baud
o Thinks E=MC^2 is a rap star
o Zero K memory

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