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I have read that Ichiro, when faced with a particularly banal question, would sometimes tell his interpreter "Tell them anything".
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See, it's just like a human programmer.
"Should that be ==?"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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"The chancellor approved it"
I think of this one as fairly well known but that might be because of the Pennlee lifeboat disaster in 1981, which I guess is not so well known now.
Well you kept posting about birds and SF cons instead of running the EU!
You can borrow mine, I'm not really using it.
I've come across the word in histories of the period leading up to the American Civil War, to describe private armies intended to conquer parts of Latin America and incorporate them into the US as slave states in order to maintain the South's political power.
Carrots: they're a food *and* a stick!
The Angles, looking round East Anglia: "Okay, not our best decision".
Do we know what the distinction between PIE pelnis and pelnom was? Difference cases?
And greeting them with "Evening. Pint of the usual?"
This is only acceptable if he's covered in gravy and cheese first.
My favourite was always the Thong.
British English is usually socket. I think outlet is American.
Many years ago, when the hereditary peers could still vote, there was a news item in the Independent saying this was going to happen. Published on April 1st of course. I thought at the time it was a bit embarrassing that an April Fools joke would be an improvement over the actual system.
Having spent some time in Florida that included getting soaked to the skin walking from a restaurant to a nearby car, and calling off a drive to the Kennedy Space Center because it was raining so hard that visibility was practically nil, it doesn't sound fake at all.
For symmetry the Czech flag should feature croutons.
There's also the rather obscure English word "caitiff", which per etymonline comes from the Old North French version of chaitif, "caitive".