Laugh along with GNU

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Create More Laughs
• Laughs
  • Computing
  • Documentation
  • The Fourth Estate
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Poems
  • Science And Engineering
  • Software
  • Spam
  • Unclassified
• Disclaimer including a perfect Disclaimer!
• Humor Submission Guidelines

Introduction

Many of the graphics in the GNU Art Gallery also have humorous twists.

Create More Laughs

Humor submissions are welcome and encouraged. Please read Humor Submission Guidelines for details about submitting content for the humor section.

Please send us, webmasters@gnu.org, your ideas for more laughs to be added to this page and this web site!

Software

• Suggested GCC Options
• Funny C variable names.
• GPLd source code for humans.
• Source code for ed :-)
• Source code for ed in BrainFuck ;-)
• Errno codes.
• Error messages in Haiku.
• Happy New Year in 4 languages.
• Merry Christmas in 4 languages.
• Long Options?
• Software Terms.
• Spaghetti Code.
• Unix Error Messages.
• GNU-Overflow?
• Hello World !

Documentation

• GNU Echo.
• Ed, man! !man ed.
• Power Users Guide.
• Know your system administrator.

Music

• Read the lyrics, score, and source code of the Free Software Song.
  Hear the Song sung by Richard Stallman himself.
• The Programmer's Blues song!
• The GDB Song!
• Addicted to vi.
• GNU Emacs Song.
• The GNU Song
• Musical pick-up!
• "God wrote in Lisp code" (See also the lyrics.)
• If the Beatles were hackers . . .
• Nobody owns this song
• What a Wonderful Code
• VIM Songs
• Happiness is a bash prompt

Poems

• The Gingrinch that stole congress.
• The Last Bug.
• Midnight Dreary.
• A Networkologist's Christmas.
• Hakawatha.

Philosophy

• The Swedish YAAS Foundation Patent

The Fourth Estate

• Free Software Hack
• Microsoft and the Church
• Rectium?
• Unix, a Hoax?

Computing

• You know you're a programmer when...
• Where is any-key??
• What does Dr. Emacs think of the GNU Manifesto?
• Top 10 reasons why Intel delayed announcing the P5
• Top 10 Unreliable Networks.
• The Vaxorcist.
• Virus Warning.
• The Gullibility Virus.
• Dead Beef?
• A Swarm of Gnats?
• Where Do Deleted Characters Go?
• 10 Kinds of People in the World
• Physical Xmodmap, or The Dvorak Typewriter Hack
• Why Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon

Science and Engineering

• Phone Features.
• The Physics Store!
• Some Scientific Facts.

Spam

• Darkprofits
• Inflatable Sheep
• Dimensional Warp Generator Needed

Unclassified

• A luser's interaction with rms.
• Anagrams for some common words.
• A war against Bugs!.
• If Clinton was a tree ...
• Funny Court Statements.
• Foreign Signs.
• FSF in German.
• GNU Jive.
• Gospel.
• Lawyer jokes.
• Look and Feel.
• Panama.
• Quayle.
• Quotations.
• "Shit Happens!" as expressed by the religions of the world.
• More Shit.
• Shit Happens Contd.
• Smileys :-).
• Spilling Checker.
• Santa Claus comes to town.
• Top 10 Election 2000 Bumper Stickers.
• The Wolf Logo.

Disclaimer

Humor Submission Guidelines

Our policy for the humor page is that we will include something if all of these are true:

1. It should be funny.
2. It has no copyright problems.
3. It is not libelous.
4. It won't offend most ordinary hackers more than is reasonable in humor.