The Arms Dictionary

normalcy: (US and reporters in the US only) the coast after a storm surge has passed.
 
Slightly off topic:
Q: Which idiot wrote a program for a steelworks and thought castrate was a good variable name? :whistling:
- castrate: the rate of metal casting in a steelworks.
A: Me. And I didn't even notice it at the time.
 
We had a PA (in the days somebody else did the typing), who put one too many 'e's in "tests". Boy did she turn red when we explained what it meant!
 
Black Hole said:
We had a PA (in the days somebody else did the typing), who put one too many 'e's in "tests". Boy did she turn red when we explained what it meant!
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Bit like one of those people who used to write to Terry Wogan. Mrs Tickle. Tess to her friends.
 
EEPhil said:
Which idiot wrote a program for a steelworks and thought castrate was a good variable name?
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Did you not even use Camel Case? castRate?
I wrote a module that ended in "...SEx" some years ago. No-one has ever commented, so presumably the case stuff worked OK.
EEPhil said:
Bit like one of those people who used to write to Terry Wogan.
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Togs, tygs and (members of) twits.
Mrs Tickle. Tess to her friends.
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Miss Tickle.
 
I wrote continuous function on the board in my early days. In fact, my first year as a lecturer. After repeating it several times, I decided to abbreviate it to cont fun, and became aware of a few suppressed giggles. I hadn't closed the top of the o.
 
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