I have made this joke about atlanta area codes in phone numbers a few times, rarely lands.
How OP probably felt:
But I’m a teapot!
That’s why I prefer to hold meetings in room 200. That way everyone finds the room without even having to read the number.
That joke was 403
Your mom was forbidden
413 Content Too Large
Those friends were probably in room 420
C’mon buddy. You need to give these jokes a REST
Seriously. They really need an endpoint.
I had this weird syncronisticity a few years back where at least once a week I’d look at the time it it’d be 4:04. I’d often say “404: Time not found” and literally nobody ever got it so I started just saying it in my head instead.
Not to be that annoying person. But it’s how our brains operate to look for patterns or repeatability. It’s not that you were magically catching the clock at 4:04 all the time. You just don’t remember when you looked at 3:10 on multiple days of the week because it wasn’t meaningful.
It’s like if you notice your friend has a new car. You suddenly start noticing other people driving that car in the exact same color. Like, suddenly everyone bought that car! It’s just your brain looking for meaning.
Ok. Sorry. I got my autism comment out. I’ll be gone.
Start doing it with 418 and see if they understand that one?
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I refrained from using that joke with my wife as we walked to our hotel room 404 as I knew she wouldn’t get it and would think I was pathetic. 😄
Apparently, there is even a movie about this joke… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_(film)
I would have told her : https://xkcd.com/1053/
Lucky 10000 is a beautiful way to look at it.
If it helps, it’s the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.
So, yeah, I think it’s funny.
This is like that scene in Step-Brothers, where they become best friends.
Should we tell the real story?
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With that username, you should change instances to sh.itjust.works
@404found@lemmy.zip you’re welcome with us ;)
I’da told him: “I walked into here and couldn’t see a thing so I opened this one.”
Depends on your friends I guess?
Or its just an old/bad joke.
Big “misunderstood genius” energy
I’m kind of with you on this. Depends on who is in the room. If it’s a bunch of non-technical people, then of course they won’t get it. Know your audience. If it’s a bunch of tech people, they will probably just think the joke is stupid and roll their eyes.
…it’s just the error message when the URL entered does not lead to a valid webpage? It’s like when people “Google” something, they refer to the Google search engine. That doesn’t mean they know the difference between a search engine and a web browser, saying a silly joke doesn’t mean you have extensive knowledge in a certain field.
