Saturday, November 17th, 2007
“A fast guy in tights and a movie about Coffee”
Category: Fun
3.5 rating from 65 votes
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JavaScript has definitely arrived when it’s featured in Dilbert.
That actually bought out a chuckle.
@Anirudh: Yeah, me too.
I’d like to see what he’d do with Python or Ruby on Rails…
great stuff. …Scott Adams was an AT&T employee I believe…
Dilbert is always soooo true…
@Dean: notice the Flash reference and the order, though. :(
I had to read that twice in order to get it. Losing my touch.
now I understood what is “a movie about coffee”, but what does the last big IF mean?
I get it, he wants a spell checker! :P
someone says “coffee” is java and the “guy in tight” is flash.
but I thought the “guy in tight” is his programer, and “a movie about coffee” means his programmer works all night with coffee, looks like a movie.
chenggn, the IF isn’t part of the joke, he was just empowering the IF (like shouting it…)
haha that was a good one btw :-)
To state the obvious, the “IF” is absolutely part of the joke. The manager (or whoever he is) still thinks he is correct even though dilbert corrected him.
@chenggn: Failboat. JavaScript = Java Script = Coffee Script = Script about Coffee = Movie about Coffee. Guy in Tights = Flash Gordon
Gavin,
You would be wrong about that, Flash = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_West (Current continuity)
@Gavin: The Flash, not Flash Gordon.
FYI: Flash Gordon also wore tights ;)
Yeah, but he wasn’t fast :-)
Flash.. ah-hah… defender, of the universe
Go on, try and get that song out of your head :-)
Wow, geeks over analyzing a joke and still finding it… um… humorous… once finally getting it, even with the whole timing thing out the window - CAL(chuckle a litte) :). I loved it even though it, um, took me a moment. Wonder what your average non-geek thinks of it?
@Eric: They probably get it quicker. We’re too used to “Flash” and “JavaScript” having actual meaning to get puns on the literal terms.
@Peter Hellberg, I knew he was still thinking he was right but it was obvious so I didn’t think it’s part of the joke but you’re right, my bad.