God speed the day. If I have to use that horrible half-scheme NaN more time I'm going to undefined.

1997-era slashdot server reboot in 5 . . . 4 . . .

One hopes so.

It's even better when you are pushing 50 and they are about 24. Owie.

I'm laughing because I fear I would never stop screaming.

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Contrasted with "sinedouche", in which a salesperson vacillates in a smooth curve between misleading brown-nosing and all-out scenery-chewing lies.

To "write a check (one's) ass can't cash" is poor-folks slang for making promises or boasting, then failing to deliver on same.

I think the confusion stems from the OP's use of the possessive. I'm guessing he meant "asses".

One could simply have said "Fucking HP, right?", and there would have been no confusion whatsoever, because fucking HP, right?

Don't you know the planet's supply of Illudium Fosdick (The Shave Cream Atom) is alarmingly low? Dream on, Eager Young Space Cadet.

Totally, this is my third account.

Mod up. For the love of god MOD UP.

There you have it. He tried to follow many lines of thinking to their logical conclusions while still telling a ripping yarn. Hard to do.

I had the exact epiphany, myself.

Heinlein had lots of ideas, many were great. Some were silly. Having consumed most of his books as a kid, I must say, they did me no harm.

Generally followed by "Can't you just ..."

Yeah, the search and replace got munged. Pretend there is a tab in the replace portion.