XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Jim Jackson  wrote at 19:53 this Saturday (GMT):   
   > On 2025-11-01, Mike Terry    
   wrote:   
   >> On 01/11/2025 04:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-11-01, Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >>>> Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC   
   >>>   
   >>> It's not that programmer confuse them; rather, the above is the key to   
   >>> the mystical link between the two. It's the underpinning for why Tim   
   >>> Burton's _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ makes sense.   
   >>>   
   >>> I went trick-or-treating today with the kids; there was someone in   
   >>> a Santa suit!   
   >>>   
   >> I bet you he had a long beard.  I knew it! - one of those "octal beardies",   
   an old-time UNIX   
   >> programmer for sure!  He probably started on a PDP-11.  :)   
   >   
   > Real grey hairs use hex!   
      
      
   I thought hexes were reserved for halloween   
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