HI! If you are reading this message then you probably came here because of
this answer on the main Meta site, or maybe you where just looking at the list of chat rooms and noticed a new, weirdly named room was just created.
Anyway, you are here now, so I guess that I may as well explain what all of this is all about.
First of all, don't worry if the room is still in gallery mode. I am still working on it. It will be soon open to the public, but before that I need to post some initial guidelines.
As some of you may have already noticed, Stack Overflow just turned 10! It is an awesome event! Just think about it.... we have been here, making the internet a better place, for TEN years now.
.... but you aren't here for lame, cheesy talks right? You are here because you wanted fun, right?
Again, some of you may have noticed this too, recently the Cheese SE staff has started a set of events, celebrating the Anniversary in many different and weird ways.
The first event was a sort of Contest: Create something cheese-related to celebrate the 10 years of Stack Overflow.
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We've moved quite a bit of stuff around this year, and you've been mostly patient with us while we overhauled our information architecture. This was no trivial needs more pop and a lens flare type of undertaking, we moved a significant amount of cheese.
To kick off our fall anniversary series of...
It is still open, so... if you have a cool idea Join Now!
As for me, this is part of my idea for the contest.
Having some fun, comparing Stack Exchange sites to cheeses (or things related to cheese)
I have already started doing that, as you may see on the answer I posted on the contest. But... it is not very funny to do this alone.
I mean, part of the fun is seeing the reaction of the sites victim users when they see what lame joke we came up with, right?
So, I though that a good idea was to move part of this topic here, to the chat.
So that everyone may post his/her idea freely, without cluttering the original answer (and without having to create a dedicated topic on the Meta site just for that).
That said, Let's get started!
Everyone, feel free to post any absurd and lame idea that comes to mind. The weirder the better (but please, keep it still clean and safe).
Also, feel free to star any picture that you find funny. PLEASE, STAR ONLY THE PICTURES! That way, it should be trivial to look for them by browsing the stared messages list.
And with this... let's start (this time for real)
room mode changed to Public: anyone may enter and talk
To begin, let me repost some of the content I already posted in my answer (don't worry, I still have some ideas for other lame jokes... but the answer was getting already pretty long, so...)
> Cheese
Wensleydale(Swiss Happy Anniversary, Stack Exchange!Swiss)Brie
NoCheese
Explanation: As I have already stated, Cheese++ is an esoteric programming language. You can read more about it
here. To be honest, I was initially going to post a picture of the SO logo made out of cheese, but this joke seemed more appropriate (the idea is to find a cheese that somehow relates to a network site, after all).
Explanation: another easy one. LifeHacks is all about "creative" solutions to common life problems. So, what you do if you want to eat some cheese but no cheese is available? You make some out of cardboard, that's what you do (who said that actual edibility should stop us??)
(Note: avid LifeHacks users may notice that apparently duct tape wasn't involved in the above creation.... just pretend it is there, somewhere. This is the best image I could find, sorry ^_^)
Explanation: ... yep, I started with the easy ones, I know. Anyway, the fact that the moon is actually made of swiss cheese is a pretty famous meme/joke. And we know that the tin-foil users on Skeptics like to discuss a lot about the moon, and whether the Nasa expeditions there were real or a made up artifacts.
Explanation: I was looking for a joke about using a 3D printer to print cheese. But it seems that
Reality made my joke obsolete. Yep, somewhere out there, someone actually 3d printed cheese and made a study out of that.
You can find it here
