Geek one-liners from Swarthmore

[nancylebov]

http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=293#comments

“Free the quarks!”
“The marginalia I wrote were not for you, they were Fermat.”
“K/S forever!”
“Helo does it with his toaster!”

And more in the link. I understand most of them, but none of them strike me as all that funny, especially "Windows will always come with solitaire."

Am I missing something wonderful?

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That Windows one -- it means a couple of things: Windows keeps all its old code from forever, including the stuff that's useless: Windows has a bunch of useless features to begin with and to go on with.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

"Helo does it with his toaster" is a particularly good battlestar galactica reference.

"Helo" is the call sign of one of the characters & "toaster" is a Colonial slang term for Cylon.

Any further explanation is rather spoilerish.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

I chuckled at that one too, I'll admit. Who knew Swarthmore was such a hotbed of BSG fans?

[src.livejournal.com]

Fermat's last theorem, about which there has been a big ruckus to prove, was written in the margin. They were "fer" Matt, for somebody else. OK, little lame.

The windows one sounds more like a dirty joke attempt, with "come" and "solitaire" in it.