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Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 6, 2007

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  • dimsum05, on 10/16/2007, -15/+471Is HTML really geeky anymore?
  • ivorysky, on 10/13/2007, -10/+388Does that mean a geek started it too?
  • TGMD, on 10/12/2007, -16/+248if(war.start == 'true'){
    bush.blame = 'yes';
    } else {
    eat.icecream = 'yeah!;
    }
  • GodsDragon, on 10/13/2007, -18/+224should be more like < /Bush>
  • bjarkebech, on 10/10/2007, -5/+167HTML is, Frontpage is not.
  • Vicujozobenaxod, on 10/10/2007, -3/+137You can't close that tag, it's embedded into the web page of human existence.
  • 89vision, on 10/26/2007, -2/+134I believe its called myspace code now.
  • willemmulder, on 10/10/2007, -15/+129if ( usingLousyProgrammingStyle(this.parentComment) ) {
    me.scream("use proper programming with good booleans, and no nonsense like eat.iceream='yeah!'");
    } else {
    me.eatMoreIceCreamThan(this.parentComment.owner);
    }
  • centran, on 10/10/2007, -6/+119< style type="text/css" >
    .money {
    float: right;
    duration: indefinite;
    cost: lives;
    profit: corporations;
    exit: none;
    }
    < /style >

    < div class="money" >
    < war >Iraq< /war >
    < /div >

    < div class="money" >
    < war >Iran< /war >
    < /div >
  • sallos, on 10/13/2007, -2/+106needs a namespace, which war are they talking about :)
  • willemmulder, on 10/13/2007, -1/+97ah, you mean < strong > < /strong >
  • bigdoug, on 10/10/2007, -3/+91Bush has no idea what a forward slash means. He thinks its a Pakistani comma.
  • thechosen, on 10/10/2007, -13/+99Should've been in < b > < /b > .
  • Magillicutti, on 10/13/2007, -11/+91HAI
    CAN HAS STDIO?
    I HAS A VAR
    IM IN YR LOOP
    UPZ VAR!!1
    VISIBLE VAR
    IZ VAR BIGR THAN 10? GTFO. KTHX
    KTHX
    KTHXBYE
  • WoollyMittens, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71That's not html, since "war" it is not a valid HTML element. Offcourse it is XML instead. :)
  • jjb123, on 10/13/2007, -6/+73Not since the dawn of CrapSpace.
  • Mirielle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+63Welcome to Digg.
  • Lewie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54I like your style.
  • leprix, on 10/10/2007, -7/+56you sir, are an idiot.
  • willemmulder, on 10/10/2007, -4/+51how many people around you do you know that know (proper) HTML? Not too much probably. Unless you're a real geek. But that in turn proves the point that HTML *is* geeky.
  • ClayDragon, on 10/13/2007, -1/+46Wrong! You can't surround a closing tag with a set of other tags: < b > < /war > < /b >
  • shinynew, on 10/10/2007, -5/+50too many functions also shouldn't that be single quote marks?
    can we standardize the programming language used in jokes?
    I vote for basic.
  • Nougat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4810 "WAR? Y/N"; INPUT A$
    20 "BUSH'S FAULT? Y/N"; INPUT B$
    30 IF A$ = "Y" THEN GOTO 50
    40 GOTO 100
    50 IF B$ = "Y" THEN GOTO 70
    60 GOTO 100
    70 PRINT "GO STOP THE WAR."
    80 GOTO 110
    100 PRINT "GO GET SOME ICE CREAM."
    110 PRINT "THANK YOU."
  • capiCrimm, on 10/13/2007, -1/+44that's some crappy coding. What if I wanted to blame Nixon?
  • euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+40That's what she said.
  • Splitter402, on 10/10/2007, -10/+49Read this as Star Wars
  • talywackerflash, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38typical twit republiscum
  • wolfimus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+33He.... he knows about commas?
  • Slungsolow, on 10/30/2007, -3/+34tag is deprecated.
  • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30But it's not necessary to understand HTML to adopt the end tag meme. It has become a meme on its own and you see it in lots of places. Just like people using the " != " thing may not at all be C++ programming graduates. Heck for all I know about people, I wouldn't be surprised if some using the "life > you" thing or whatever don't even get the "greater than" sign... :-p
  • jdmcadam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29The same one that allows you to end global conflict with 6 characters of ASCII
  • thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28You just:

    - Download source tree from cvs
    - Modify blame.bush='yes' to blame.bush='I am not a crook'
    - Recompile with "make clean; make dep; make; make install"
    - Generate patch file
    - Submit patch file to mailing list


    Simple right?
  • m0tbaillie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27He's just pissed because he's clearly not tech-savvy and didn't get the joke. Leave him be, he has issues.
  • Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25First time I have seen it!

    Shut Up!
  • dnite, on 10/13/2007, -2/+25CrapSpace? Really? That's the best you got? I don't think 'CrapSpace' made HTML non-geeky. Everyone who used HTML on myspace thinks they are special 'myspace codes'.. 95% of them don't even realize they're using HTML since all they're doing is copy and pasting.
  • anarchytv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23that's more like a closing tag, which assumes you were the one programming the war... better to sudo to root and do a kill -9 on the war process
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24damn you guys are nerds...
  • mcprogrammer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22What markup language lets you put attributes in the closing tags?
  • sapped, on 10/13/2007, -2/+24I don't think Bush is finished with his bold statements yet
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20I'm printing that out and placing it in my box of treasures.
  • leroyrich240, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24If tooAnalRetentive = True Then
    MsgBox("Settle your ass!")
    End If

    (Yeah, VBScript - I'm not a programmer, I'm an Admin)
  • niczar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22If you were a real admin, you'd do it in sh or perl.
    VB? That's for kids.
  • centran, on 10/13/2007, -5/+23*****
  • kenadak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Oh, if this were only true! alas... I manage an IIS server running a website written by a woman who has at least 2 pages I swear were exported to HTML from Word 95! The rest was made with Frontpage...
  • willemmulder, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19I really didn't want to use the [/just kidding] here, but all right, there you go. I was [/just kidding]. < /comment >
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Wait, wait... I get to end it like the guy did in the pic!

    < /war >
  • theghoul, on 10/19/2007, -1/+15like < BR > no end tag implemented.
  • mal1964, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16More like "Protest the war the geeky way"
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14HARDY HAR HAR
  • Rikushix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Haha....style. I get it.
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