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<h2>Laugh along with GNU</h2>
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<p>This section is designed to provide some laughs to the working
hackers. It contains software, documentation, music, poems, etc. submitted
by GNU users and collected by GNU contributors over the years.</p>

<p>Nowadays there are many places on the internet where people can publish
jokes, so before submitting a joke to us, please consider publishing it
somewhere else. Jokes submitted by GNU contributors will have a priority.
Please read the <a href="#Guidelines">Guidelines</a> for details on our
submission policy.</p>


<p>Many of the graphics in the <a href="/graphics/graphics.html">GNU
Art Gallery</a> also have humorous twists.</p>

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<h3 id="Computing">Computing</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/10-kinds-of-people.html">10 Kinds of People in
  the World</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/any-key.html">Where is any-key??</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/deadbeef.html">Dead Beef</a>?</li>
  <li>What does Dr. Emacs think of
  the <a href="/fun/jokes/doctor.manifesto.html">GNU Manifesto</a>?</li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html">Why GNU/Linux Viruses are
  fairly uncommon</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gcc_audio.html">A Swarm of Gnats?</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gullibility.virus.html">The Gullibility Virus</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/p5.delay.html">Top 10 reasons why Intel
  delayed announcing the P5</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/programmer.txt">You know you're a programmer
  when…</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/unreliable.net.html">Top 10 Unreliable
  Networks</a></li>
  <li>The <a href="/fun/jokes/vaxorcist.html">Vaxorcist</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/virus-warning.html">Virus Warning</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/xmodmap.html">Physical Xmodmap, or The Dvorak
  Typewriter Hack</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150224010742/http://www.joke-archives.com/computers/deletedcharacters.html">
  Where Do Deleted Characters Go?</a></li>
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<h3 id="Software">Software</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/brainfuck.html">Source code for ed in
  BrainFuck ;-)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/c+-.html">C more or less</a></li>
  <li>GPL'd <a href="/fun/jokes/dna.html">source code</a> for humans</li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/ed.html">Source code for ed :-)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/emacs.man">Emacs man page from Plan9</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/errno.2.html">Errno codes</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html">Error messages</a> in Haiku</li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gcc.html">Suggested GCC Options</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.html">GNU Emacs</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gnu-overflow.html">GNU-Overflow?</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/happy-new-year.html">Happy New Year in 4
  languages</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/helloworld.html">Hello World!</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hello_world_patent.html">The Swedish YAAS
  Foundation Patent</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/long-options.html">Long Options?</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/merry-xmas.html">Merry Christmas in 4
  languages</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/pasta.code.html">Spaghetti Code</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/santa_comes_to_town.html">Santa Claus comes to
  town</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/software.terms.html">Software Terms</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/ubuntu.html">Ubuntu</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/unix.errors.html">Unix Error Messages</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110411021200/https://twitter.com/1990sLinuxUser">
  Some humor via Twitter</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="Documentation">Documentation</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/echo-msg.html">GNU Echo</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html">Ed, man! !man ed</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html">GNU Emacs acronym
  expansions</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html">Know your system
  administrator</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/power.users.html">Power Users Guide</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="ScienceAndEngineering">Science and Engineering</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/phone.features.html">Phone Features</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/physics.html">The Physics Store!</a></li>
  <li>Some <a href="/fun/jokes/science.facts.html">Scientific Facts</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="Music">Music</h3>
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<ul>
  <li><a
  <li>See <a href="/music/music.html">GNU Music and Songs</a></li>
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<h3 id="Poems">Poems</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hakawatha.html">Hakawatha</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/last.bug.html">The Last Bug</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/midnight.dreary.html">Midnight Dreary</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/networkologist.html">A Networkologist's
  Christmas</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/philosophy/bdk.html">The Ballad of Dennis Karjala</a></li>
  <li><a href="/philosophy/fire.html">Copyrighting Fire!</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/hello_world_patent.html">The Swedish YAAS
  Foundation Patent</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://maxbarry.com/2011/03/23/news.html">Tomato
  parable</a></li>
  <li>See <a href="/philosophy/third-party-ideas.html#humor">the
  Philosophical Humor section in Third Party Ideas</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="TheFourthEstate">The Fourth Estate</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/look-and-feel.html">Look and Feel</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/microsoft-church.html">Microsoft and the
  Church</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/rectium.html">Rectium?</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html">Unix, a Hoax?</a></li>
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<h3 id="Dictionary">Dictionary and Word Play</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/anagrams.html">Anagrams</a> for some common
  words</li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/fsf-in-german.html">FSF in German</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/fundefinitions1.html">Fun Definitions 1</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/fundefinitions2.html">Fun Definitions 2</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/grammar-in-the-bar.html">Grammar in the bar</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/musical-pickup.html">Musical pickup</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/panama.html">Panama</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/spilling-checker.html">Spilling Checker</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/typoglycemia.html">Typoglycemia</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="Spam">Spam</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/spam/sheep.html">Inflatable Sheep</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/spam/warpgenerator.html">Dimensional Warp Generator
  Needed</a></li>
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<h3 id="Unclassified">Unclassified</h3>

<ul>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/bug.war.html">A war against bugs</a>!</li>
  <li>Funny <a href="/fun/jokes/courtroom.quips.html">Court
  Statements</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/freesoftware.html">Free Software Hack</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/gospel.html">Gospel</a></li>
  <li>A luser's <a href="/fun/jokes/luser-vs-rms.html">interaction</a>
  with <a href= "http://www.stallman.org/">rms</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/paging.game.html">The Paging Game</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/quotations.html">Quotations</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/smileys.html">Smileys :-)</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/users-lightbulb.html">How many GNU/Linux users are
  needed to change a light bulb?</a></li>
  <li><a href="/fun/jokes/wolf-logo.html">The Wolf Logo</a></li>
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<h3 id="Guidelines">Humor Submission Guidelines</h3>

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<p>This is our policy to include something in the fun section:</p>

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  <li>It should be funny.</li>
  <li>It has no copyright problems.</li>
  <li>It is not libelous.</li>
  <li>It won't offend most ordinary hackers more than is reasonable in
  humor.</li>
  <li>Although the humor does not have to be strictly connected to the
  computers world, we strongly prefer to reserve these pages for jokes
  related to free software, GNU, the UNIX environment, and similar
  fields.</li>
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<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
<p>Much of the material on this page (and linked to from it) was
obtained from the FSF's email archives of the GNU Project. The Free Software
Foundation claims no copyrights on these.</p>
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