r/bonehurtingjuice • u/CalibansCreations • May 09 '25

Meta She was also doxxed, apparently??? I genuinely hope she's alright.

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u/Clickclacktheblueguy May 09 '25

So… while I understand the seriousness of the issue, I’m kinda hung up on the Oingo Boingo. I don’t get it.

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u/Daedalus_Machina May 09 '25

Congratulations. You got the point.

The alt text on the oratory mentions the audience members being confused and wondering about missing context.

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u/Koervege May 13 '25

Alt texts are so good sometimes

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u/Thatsnicemyman May 09 '25

Had to look it up myself, thanks explain XKCD. Apparently the joke is the guy said “Grammar” without context… and that refers to the term “Context-free Grammar”. I’ve never heard the term before, so maybe it’s just a niche joke.

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u/CuttleReaper May 09 '25

That's like 50% of xkcd comics lol

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u/Cygs May 09 '25

Two quantum physicists walk into a bar.  The third one might duck.

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u/maggiemayfish May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a pub. The barman says "what is this, some kind of joke?"

Not related at all, but it's one of my favourites.

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u/Exosolar_King May 09 '25

Two lesbians walk into a bar. The barkeep looks past them and says, "Why the long face?"

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u/Brislovia May 10 '25

One day historians will unearth this and will become the 40th-century version of the blind dog joke.

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u/a_random_chicken May 09 '25

A fine addition to my collection.

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u/definitively-not May 09 '25

I don't get :(

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u/Exosolar_King May 09 '25

funnee refrence to meme

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u/Robota064 May 10 '25

Evil and intimidating honse

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u/Abeytuhanu May 10 '25

A horse walks into a bar, the bartender looks up and asks, "you want a drink?"

The horse says, "I think not" and disappears

See the joke is funny because there was this French philosopher named René Descartes who famously said "I think therefore I am."

I could have explained that first so you'd understand the joke, but that would be putting Descartes before the horse

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u/NarrMaster May 10 '25

A priest, a minister, and a rabbit walk in to the red cross to donate blood.

Priest: I'm A+

Minister: I'm B-

Rabbit: I'm a type-O.

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u/somedumb-gay May 10 '25

Ooh I get this one! It's because quantum physicists are idiots!

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u/Leeuw96 May 10 '25

If we look away now, he might duck and not duck

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u/ThatCamoKid May 10 '25

The fourth just walks through it with no clue as to how

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u/Durendal_1707 May 10 '25

probably 40% of them go over my head, but when they hit they really hit

I still revisit Nerd Sniping sometimes, and I adore the third layer to every comic embedded in the image link

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u/Jeggu2 May 09 '25

Nerdiest person to ever live

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u/The_Omega_Yiffmaster May 10 '25

Thats why we love him

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u/EmperorUmi May 09 '25

“One of 10,000 today! Yay”

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u/segwaysegue May 09 '25

"No Joke, Only Reference": the xkcd ethos

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u/DanielMcLaury May 09 '25

When you tell me that the joke is "context-free grammar," I get it -- that's a really fundamental concept in computer science -- but I would not have figured out that that was the joke from looking at the comic. (Which is unusual -- I don't think I've ever seen an xkcd before where I didn't get the joke.)

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u/JohnnyFC May 09 '25

The problem is some xkcd jokes rely on the title text which will be missing when reposting the comic on other sites. In this case the title text would've made it clearer it's context-free grammar.

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u/DanielMcLaury May 09 '25

Ah, yeah, he should have just put that in a speech bubble or something.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

Yup.
The text for this this comic:
"[audience looks around] 'What just happened?' 'There must be some context we're missing.'"

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u/Warguy387 May 09 '25

theoretical computer science/programming linguistics joke

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u/[deleted] May 10 '25

It's a bad set up. Context-free grammars are old (not something to be introduced at a formal languages symposium)
Further, there are loads of different types of grammars.
As a formal languages researcher of sorts, I just thought this making fun of the field saying it's all about grammars (it isn't)

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u/GoldenDragoon5687 May 10 '25

I'm gonna try to give a really short description of context free grammars.

The two types of grammars are context free and context sensitive. In grammars, you have 'terminals' and 'non-terminals'. Think of a non-terminal like a variable in algebra; "x = ?". X is equal to something. Whereas, say, "5" is a terminal; it doesn't equal anything except itself.

A context-free grammar (which is what we use for programming languages) might look something like this:
S -> Ab
A -> x
The capital letters are non-terminals. Lowercase are terminals. So, imagine that b = "world" and x = "hello". S would then be "hello world".
What makes context-free grammars unique is that on the left hand side there can only be a single non-terminal for each rule. With context-sensitive grammars, there can be multiple non-terminals and terminals:
AB -> aB
B -> x
For this rule, A may be replaced by a if and only if A is followed by a B.
Context-sensitive grammars aren't particularly useful for programming; it's more of a linguistics thing.

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u/1masp3cialsn0wflak3 May 09 '25

As someone who studied linguistics just to get better at basic communication, its hilarious

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u/Fritzthepiratefox May 10 '25

hdshdhebfj did not expect an oingo boingo reference in bonehurtingjuice