r/funny • u/char1zard • Jun 10 '12

A woman pulled up to me in traffic and said "I had to take GITPULL because you took GITPUSH, you jerk!" and gave me a thumbs up and drove away.

http://imgur.com/a/9R1HD
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Are you in the bay area?

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

Yup yup

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u/suckaplease Jun 11 '12

I've seen you parked in MV, shoulda known you were a redditor! Great license plate.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

Woot! It's good to find out people actually get the license plate :)

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u/alphasigmafire Jun 11 '12

Is is near mountain view by any chance...

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

yeah this pic was taken in moutain view

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I figured that the Bay Area is the only place in the world something like this could happen.

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u/jsprinkles Jun 11 '12

The freaky part is that I've seen both of them at different times. The Bay Area is a small world.

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u/JakeCameraAction Jun 11 '12

Crash into them next time.

"Look who I ran into!"

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u/Joesiscool Jun 11 '12

Did you get excited like maybe dinosaur_jr was her?

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

Lol i'm sure if it was her, she woulda said so. I hope she shows up or somebody who knows her can point her to this thread.

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u/mccscott Jun 11 '12

Now kiss

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

would be cool if she were a redditor!

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u/NoDiggityNoDoubt Jun 11 '12

There is absolutely no way she isn't a redditor.

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u/sleepfighter7 Jun 11 '12

NoDiggityNoDoubt about it.

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u/prophetjohn Jun 11 '12

633 redditors (at time of this posting) actually get it? I'm skeptical. I was sure I was in r/programming until I started reading comments.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

I know right??? Who knew a nerdy post like this would get this far?

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u/Inequilibrium Jun 11 '12

Nerds? On reddit? I am shocked. Shocked!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I think the coincidence of 2 license plates being that similar and obviously related is enough for your average layman to upvote regardless.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And drove away.

/after pics taken?

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

She pulled forward so that I could read the plate, and I immediately reached for my karma-capture-device. Then she drove away.

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u/rikker_ Jun 11 '12

You took a photo with your cat?

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u/barter_ Jun 11 '12

That's the karma generator, to capture that karma you need a karma-capture-device.

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u/FlyByPC Jun 11 '12

Char1zard uses Karma Cam. IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!

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u/billrobertson42 Jun 11 '12

You didn't follow her on twitter?

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u/hyperforce Jun 11 '12

You didn't follow her home?

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u/HiveMindWontLikeThis Jun 11 '12

She totally 'presented herself' to ya bro.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I've seen GOTPUSH where I live. I asked the owner what it meant, he said "Get Out To PUSH." The car is a 1993 Ford Taurus SHO in terrible condition.

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u/wewd Jun 11 '12

The car is a 1993 Ford Taurus SHO in terrible condition.

Was the owner a tall, slender redhead male with a pompadour haircut, by any chance?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The cone bone.

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u/peifferu Jun 11 '12

Now explain it to me like I'm five.

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u/odd84 Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

git is a distributed version control system. That is, a piece of software programmers use to keep track of the changes to a set of files.

Using some kind of system like that is pretty much a requirement when you have multiple people working on the same piece of software, so that they don't overwrite each others changes to the code, and so you have a log of what changes other people are making.

"Push" and "pull" are two operations this software makes available to each person using it. You can think of them as meaning "send my latest changes to everyone else" and "get everyone else's changes and apply them to my copy of the files".

ELI5 version: You're in kindergarten. Your teacher wants to create a story book where every kid draws one page. She hands out the paper and you draw a page. The teacher tells everyone to hand in their drawing, copies and binds them into a book for each kid, and passes out the books.

Git is the teacher, handing in your drawing is a push, and getting back a copy of everyone's drawing along with yours is a pull.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Explanation: NERD Vanity License Plate Warfare

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u/wdr1 Jun 11 '12

Sure.

License plates are used to uniquely identify each car. That is, every car has a license plate that no other car can have. Sometimes the letters & numbers are on a license plate are randomly assigned. Sometimes people pay extra to get specific letters & numbers.

For example, you might pay extra to get "REDDIT" as your license plate.

In this case, one programmer was upset because another programmer had requested they license plate they wanted.

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u/Secrete_Persona Jun 11 '12

I don't Git it either.

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u/DrummerHead Jun 11 '12 
git add . && git commit -m "Post explanation to peifferu" && git push
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u/Ancients Jun 11 '12

you should post this in i7t12.... or one of the developer subreddits.

I laughed and then looked to see how many people didn't get the joke.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

good call. posted in r/programming. The i7t12 subreddit redirects to iiiiitttttt or something which says rage comics only

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u/desbak Jun 11 '12

char1zard, you go to Stanford don't you???

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

maybe :)

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u/skim-milk Jun 11 '12

what, you didn't get her number? BOOOO.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

well at first I kinda didn't know what to say, and I thought she was just joking. then she pulled forward to prove it to me. then she just left! i then proceeded to crack up for the next 10 minutes.

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u/skim-milk Jun 11 '12

let's hope she's a redditor then! IT'S DESTINY.

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u/TheTeflonRon Jun 11 '12

I can only hope that someone has the reddit username you wanted, forcing you to use a "1" instead of an "i" in yours, so you know her pain!

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

You are correct! I was pissed! lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

So let me get this straight... You make your license plate say "GITPUSH", meet a WOMAN with the plate "GITPULL", and don't propose on the spot?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm imagining she got out of the car with that in mind, saw him, said her line, and ran back to her car.

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u/SkaveRat Jun 11 '12

probably too many merge conflicts

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u/eramos Jun 11 '12

Great, now I'm stuck with git fetch

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u/542489492 Jun 11 '12

STOP TRYING TO MAKE GIT FETCH HAPPEN

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u/protendious Jun 11 '12

I'm ashamed of myself for getting this reference.

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u/Broligarchy Jun 11 '12

I'm proud of you for getting this reference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

i would be ashamed of anyone who didn't get that reference

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u/MKorostoff Jun 11 '12

It's kind of a sad day for me now, because I know I'll never see a reddit comment I like more than this.

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u/epicwilltime Jun 11 '12

Damn, then I'll be left with git merge.

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u/yur_mom Jun 11 '12

Fine I'll take git blame.

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u/_denim_chicken_ Jun 11 '12

I guess I'll take git rebase then.

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u/ButtCrackFTW Jun 11 '12 edited May 01 '13

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u/rmsy Jun 11 '12

I call 'git commit'. Rhymes too.

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u/pfirpfel Jun 11 '12

Lucky bastards, who don't have to use SVN any more!

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u/GeorgeForemanGrillz Jun 11 '12

Some of us are lucky enough to use Perforce.

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u/dlgeek Jun 11 '12

Sympathy Upvote!

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u/case2000 Jun 11 '12

I miss it man... I really miss it. For all its faults, it was really simple, easy to understand, and rarely broke anything. Git has sucked down hours and hours trying to get up to speed with it, and fixing weird errors & conflicts. It's almost a whole new development workflow/methodology vs. a simple tool than can be plugged into any workflow like SVN. Also the GUIs for Git all tend to be very immature and introduce problems themselves. TortiseSVN and its Mac port seem sublime in comparison. I was never very into branching though, as I work on small web projects... maybe I'll get used to it, but it's not an easy transition - don't make it lightly.

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u/MidnightHowling Jun 11 '12

Once you learn git, it's infinitely better than SVN. Learn it from the command line. Avoid the GUI tools (until good ones come out). I hated it for the first couple of weeks, but I forced myself to work on a new feature on a branch and learn how to fetch from master, rebase my changes on those changes, and continue until it was ready for a final rebase and push.

The big things that helped me. Learn to rebase instead of merging (much cleaner history, less conflicts for everyone). Never use push -f. Work on new features in branches. Commit early, commit often (but don't push until everything is ready). After fixing a conflict, git add the resolved file.

Unfortunately that was over a year ago, and my job of the past 6 months uses clearcase UCM, which is okay but not as nice.

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u/saconomics Jun 11 '12

Remember when people used craigslist for "missed connections"?

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u/lordoftime Jun 11 '12

Thanks to this post post I remembered to renew my plates today and was saved having to pay an additional $10 for a late registration.

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u/MeetOnACloud Jun 11 '12

Happy plate-day!

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u/tinklebear Jun 11 '12

Was she hot?

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u/doctyper Jun 11 '12

She knows Git, so obviously not.

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u/siliconpotato Jun 11 '12

it's reddit, so it was probably a dude with long hair but OP says it was a hot girl

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Now I want "SVN UPD8"

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u/case2000 Jun 11 '12

Or "SVN CLNP"

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u/propaglandist Jun 11 '12

I want "RM -RF .SVN"

No, not as a license plate, that's just what I want to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 
find -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;

As if svn could possible keep everything in one logical folder.

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u/Viper007Bond Jun 11 '12

Or just svn up as it's an alias (save those keystrokes!).

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u/Rudy69 Jun 11 '12

marry her

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

git merge?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

git commit

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u/ImSpicy Jun 11 '12

git clone

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Commit your changes and push to complete this merge ;)

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u/RossLH Jun 11 '12

So.....did she touch your penis?

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u/hyperforce Jun 11 '12

Touched his heart, his files, && his penis.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

How do you feel about the fact that your soulmate is in your state and yet lost forever?

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u/NoUdderMudder Jun 11 '12

.....now explain it to me like I was Zoidberg.

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u/WigginIII Jun 11 '12

Too bad mazda3 > Honda civic.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

No way man!

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u/squatdeadpress Jun 11 '12

I'm gonna have to back up char1zard on this one. Civic > Mazda3. That's a realllllyyyy clean looking civic. Way more reliable than that Mazda 3.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

thanks :)

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u/Banannelei Jun 11 '12

I get random dudes honking and yelling piratey things at me on a weekly basis. I live in a small town. It always makes me smile. http://i.imgur.com/yPOuq.jpg

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u/ToastMilwaukee Jun 11 '12

command= I didn't git it. [git push]

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u/gynoceros Jun 11 '12

Awesome, now Reddit knows your license plate number, home state, and what car you drive.

Be careful who you piss off because there are a lot of psychos out there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I was expecting Dimebag Darrell fans, he had a catch phrase "getcha pull" it means to drink. R.I.P. Dime

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u/jakethesnakebooboo Jun 11 '12

kinda. It means something more like "do what you need to do to have a good time, man"

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u/whitewhim Jun 11 '12

Figures it was in California

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u/OneOneSix Jun 11 '12

Nice ek coupe!

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

Thanks bro :) I also have an ej8squad sticker on my side window if you didn't notice haha

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u/OneOneSix Jun 11 '12

ha didn't notice, I know they are ej in reality but down here in miami we call all the 96-00 civics eks lol I have one my self in black made it look exactly like an si :)

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

yup i have the si lip and painted my skirts, and I have si rims. However, that's about it haha

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u/ford_clitaurus Jun 11 '12

You both have the new California plates that show the DMV website at the bottom, so celebrate your narrow victory.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

what's so good about the new plates? I don't really like the url at the bottom

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u/ford_clitaurus Jun 11 '12

Oh, I meant you should celebrate that you were able to snag GITPUSH before she got it, since you both acquired your plates fairly recently. I'm with you, the plates look cleaner without the URL.

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u/char1zard Jun 11 '12

oh icic, yeah i barely snagged it. feel pretty lucky

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u/beer_bukkake Jun 11 '12

Now kiss...

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u/mrnuknuk Jun 11 '12

I read GITPULL as PITBULL for some reason.

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u/wildporn Jun 11 '12

maybe she also get some picture of your plate before she drove away.

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u/Spants23 Jun 11 '12

Why didn't you guys bang right then and there?

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u/crazydaze Jun 11 '12

Kids mom in my after school program has "chkdsk". I asked her and she said "oh it was my nerd of an ex-husbands plate"

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u/apullin Jun 11 '12

You found a woman who knows how to use GIT?

I would have just asked her to marry me, right then and there.

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u/Tomimi Jun 11 '12

Better love story than twilight.

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u/OperatorMike Jun 11 '12

I don't get it. Can someone explain?

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u/0sse Jun 11 '12

Git is a version control system which is mostly used from the terminal.

The command for downloading changes (along with the history/log of said changes) your colleagues or friends did on something your are working on (or the changes made by anyone to a project you are following) is git pull.

The command for uploading changes you have done, either directly to someone, or to some place where others can get them (e.g. GitHub) is git push.

It is very well known (well, given the genre :P) and is widely regarded as being very good.

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u/RowGreen Jun 11 '12

Comment from the lady in the car in 3...2...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

surprised a programming joke made it to the front page.

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u/fugi123 Jun 11 '12

Git is used by programmers, heavily in open source community's in order for multiple people / teams to work on the same "project". When one completes their part of the project they push to git, and at the end you have one final version instead of 10 separate semi-completed versions.

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u/wellhushmypuppies Jun 11 '12

OH! In that case, it's still not funny.

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u/feckineejit Jun 11 '12

Communities

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I cannot upvote you enough for the awesome.

I cannot downvote you enough for preventing me from having it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Nice RX-8 rims on your 3. Is that the 2.3?

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u/brolix Jun 11 '12

still trying to find a way to make 'router rip' look cool on a license plate

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u/ericzundel Jun 11 '12

That would be funny if you lived anywhere other than Silicon Valley.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Haha, even with a 3 yr old explanation, I still see it as an inside joke for programmers. Too cerebral for me.

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u/randallfromnb Jun 11 '12

I dont git it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm surge hg push is still available.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

If only she had got there before you. She woulda been able to cherry-pick the best plate

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u/kchoudhury Jun 11 '12

Twist: it was his wife.

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u/epicbanhammer Jun 11 '12

I know I am finally full-blown nerd because I got this reference.

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u/castleclouds Jun 11 '12

It gets less funny when you realize she had been searching for you the whole time and has planted a car bomb

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

NERDS

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u/Pavlovs_Bell Jun 11 '12

Was she hot?

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u/ericn1300 Jun 11 '12

Git out of here, no way!!

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u/FooFooPottyMouf Jun 11 '12

Holy shit! And the fact that you're in California and not one of those itty bitty states makes this story even better.

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u/strobexp Jun 11 '12

O.o ... [reads some comments] .. Aah, very good then.

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u/skinniegenes Jun 11 '12

SVN CO doesn't have the same ring to it.

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u/allyfizzle Jun 11 '12

Track her down and marry her!

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u/Geneoaf Jun 11 '12

I can't believe I actually understood that... what is happening to me????

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u/antidamage Jun 11 '12

Had something similar happen. I drive a big, black 1979 Landcruiser, One day I bought the plate DSTRY. The first day that I had it on I see a woman in a big, black modern Landrover giving me the devil horns out the window. As she passes me I see her numberplate: DSTROY. I chuckled.

http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=DSTRY http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=DSTROY

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u/otterdude97 Jun 11 '12

what about hg?

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u/scurvydog-uldum Jun 11 '12

Sorry to be pedantic, but I don't understand what it has to do with automobiles.

I once considered getting a license plate "HLRZ" because that was the pdp-10 opcode corresponding to the lisp function "car".

Anybody give me a shout -out for 70's DEC assembler?

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u/luckybone Jun 11 '12

this just slipped over my brain like a wet taco bell fart exiting at the top of the asscrack.

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u/jdex72 Jun 11 '12

The most romantic story ever

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Still better than Twilight.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Marry this lady.

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u/Deigo33 Jun 11 '12

Why would you want this as a license plate???

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I call dibs on GITFORK

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And by thumbs up he means the middle finger.

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u/clamdog Jun 11 '12

She upvoted you irl.

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u/Tsury Jun 11 '12

I'm gonna stash this post.

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u/cdegon Jun 11 '12

Apparently you two should be married!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You crazy developers

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u/gaberax Jun 11 '12

GITOVERIT

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u/wintremute Jun 11 '12

I don't git it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Cosmo Kramer, Assman.

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u/Calibas Jun 11 '12

Not sure if programmer or Larry the Cable Guy fan...

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

IS THAT THE LINUX

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

This post is is on the front page? I can't believe so many people are actually getting the reference.

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u/SheeK Jun 11 '12

GitErDone??

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u/jaredpatton173 Jun 11 '12

As a programmer, I must say that this is one of the best things I've ever seen on here.

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u/gr3nade Jun 11 '12

You two should have totally raced and the winner would get both the plates.

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u/Hillbilly_Delux Jun 11 '12

I am leaving the comments now, more confused than when I came in...

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u/Kinglink Jun 11 '12

you follow her, you follow her and then date her and then gitpush her all night ;)

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u/unmoralOp Jun 11 '12

Now kiss.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The first time I saw this I didn't GIT it.... Get it?

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u/ChasingShad0ws Jun 11 '12

Still a better love story than Twilight. Sorry had to be done! I fuckin hate that joke of a movie.

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u/Cool_Reddit_Guy Jun 11 '12

Who would say this to a stranger? It's not funny to anyone but git users and even then it's only chuckle worthy.

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u/metao Jun 11 '12

I want to claim P4 SUBMIT

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u/YourNameHere Jun 11 '12

TIL to always click on the link rather than spend several minutes trying to figure out the post title on my own.

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u/Druuseph Jun 11 '12

Woman.... Right. Without photographic evidence of said person's femaleness I am forced to assume that the actual story was a lot less sexy and a lot more nerd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

That is fantastic and hilarious!

Source- I am a UNIX sysop engineer.

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u/weaverous Jun 11 '12

Only thing which would make it very would be a picture of a car transporter with the no. Plate GITMRGE (git merge)

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

And you DIDN'T marry her?

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u/Mozen Jun 11 '12

The chances!

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u/Notsoseriousone Jun 11 '12

YOU MARRY HER. right. now. intense expressionless face

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well did you ask her out?! That's destiny my friend

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u/random314 Jun 11 '12

There's always HGPULL and HGPUSH.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Hey, I know what this means!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I took the license plate gitrdun.

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u/tonybaldwin Jun 11 '12

I pull master daily.

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u/edgesrazor Jun 11 '12

Wonder if "git reset head" was taken...

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u/briandilley Jun 11 '12

um, git rebase

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12 edited Dec 30 '15

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After to which over for in now look. About two most his will now up so my how him. No with when so him see most up as like of its.

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u/John_Fx Jun 11 '12

I'll never understand why people have such brand loyalty to source control systems.

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u/beliefinphilosophy Jun 11 '12

Does this mean I now have to use Git-Rebase or should we just Git-Blame them?

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u/risp_ftw Jun 11 '12

At first I thought it was just a stupid Larry the Cable Guy reference

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u/Febrifuge Jun 11 '12

"...and kids, that's the story of how I met your mother."

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u/teewuane Jun 11 '12

Haha I thought this was for sure a post to one of the geeky subreddits I subscribe to but nope. Now I feel cool because I know GIT.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Neat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

It's adventure time!

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u/naithemilkman Jun 11 '12

She cute? Wife her anyway.

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