Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category

Question

Please post your nominations for the Best of Code Review 2014 - Lots of Laughs category.

Answer that makes the best use of humor to illustrate a point.

In your nomination post, please make sure to include a link to the nominated answer, as well as a short explanation of what makes that post worthy of being nominated in this category, and why it should win over the others.

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_{Small characters at the bottom: Only one nomination per post, nominated answers must have a creation date in 2014, downvotes don't count, and Santa reserves the right to award the top-voted nominee a special bounty as a token of appreciation on behalf of the Code Review community.}

Answer 1

Rubberduck on "A practical example of evenly distributing n lists into a single list"

One word.... VELOCIRAPTORS.

You seem like a nice guy, I don't want the raptors to get you...

The answer goes on to mention "The dreaded GoTo" and "Velociraptors" several times.

Answer 2

Simon on 'Team Split' problem

One word:

Rewafadhabihlgdity

Okay, maybe "one" more word.

Dontyoufinditabithardtoreadtext/codethatdoesntcontainanyspacesandappropriatepunctuation?

These two "words" make the point clear about how readable the code was, and why it is good to use spacing.

Answer 3

I just realized that meta answers were eligible for nomination too, so...

Mat's Mug on Can I put my code on a third party site and link to the site in my question?

Why? Because cats and the internet are like peas and carrots and I can't think of anything that could possibly drive home the reason we can't rely on external links for content than this.

Answer 4

Comment by 200_success on Optimizing nested loop for an array within a list

Funny that @hamsaya chose to use birds as a hypothetical identifier when asking an off-topic question about nesting.

But really, we need to know the type of birds you are talking about to know what kind of nesting is appropriate. – 200_success♦ Sep 25 '14 at 17:37

Answer 5

200_success on Wow that's a big integer! What's its largest prime factor?

What a fascinating solution! It seems that for every smart decision you made, you also threw in a poor decision or two.

To which RubberDuck said, a month later in chat:

This remains one of my favorite reviews. @200 cracks me up.

Answer 6

Zirak on "How do I make this Average Function better?"

And what happens if you get an empty array? You divide by zero, which is MADNESS!! MADNESS I TELL YOU!

The answer actually points out some pretty serious bugs and design flaws (i.e. madness). I think it was a fantastic use of humor to really drive home the point.

Answer 7

user50399 on "Numbers to words"

"Strone"? What's a "strone"? Oh… of course!

That sarcastic admonition against Hungarian notation made @RubberDuck laugh, at least.

_{+1 for making me laugh. Kill the Hungarian Notation with fire! — RubberDuck Aug 23 '14 at 12:00}