Yo Mama's So...

QUESTION: Haje Korth, for some inexplictable reason, asked this question on the IDL newsgroup in the context of a discussion on how friendly and civil the newsgroup was compared to Java and FORTRAN newsgroups:

So where do we go for more severe insults?

ANSWER: It turns out, he didn't have to go anywhere. IDL newsgroup participants were happy to oblige. What follows is the insults they sent Haje's way over the next couple of days.

Yo mama's so fat she looks like an IDL program with a FOR loop!

Yo mama's so fat a snapshot of her has to be displayed in XVOLUME.

Yo mama's so fat dividing the number of Julian seconds this year by her weight caused a floating underflow error!

Yo mama's so fat you have to use 64-bit integers to subscript her image!

Yo mama's so fat that when you execute the following command:

   IDL> result = weight(mama)

you get the error message “Expression must be a scalar in this context.

Yo mama's so fat that mama = trim(mama,2).

Yo mama's so fat I had to do a SET_PLOT, 'XXX' to display her.

Yo mama's so fat her shape can be modelled with the DIST function.

Yo mama's so fat SHOW3 claimed it was a Java function.

Yo mama's so fat her butt shakes like Liam's GOES image movie.

Yo mama's so fat I ran out of colors rendering her on my 24-bit display.

Yo mama's so fat I had to set NOCLIP=1 to display her.

Yo mama's so fat that to filter data, she uses the MRSBUTTERWORTH filter.

Yo mama's so fat even the BUTTERBALL filter didn't smooth her.

Yo mama's so fat the command:

   IDL> Contour, mama, LEVELS=500 

took over an hour to render on my new iMac.

Yo mama's so dumb she tried to set !PI equal to 'cherry'.

Yo mama's so dumb she thinks Euler is a guy out working on a derrick.

Yo mama's so dumb she thinks “gimble lock” is what you spread on bagels.

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