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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the here-is-my-handle dept.

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

The august and serious folk at the IETF have always had a soft spot for their April Fool's jokes, and so do others – so much that a proposal to deprecate a joke has met with successful resistance.

From what feels like the Internet Dark Ages of the 1990s, was the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, a joking anticipation of the Internet of Things, which gave the world HTTP Error 418:

2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/14/error_418_im_a_teapot_preserved/


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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:46PM (4 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:46PM (#554232) Journal

    (And I'm not talking about "Long Island Iced Tea," which is an abomination.)

    It's because all the booze has the color of iced tea. Nothing to do with actual tea. Just like "sex on the beach" doesn't involve a sandy willy.

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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:14PM (3 children)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:14PM (#554411) Journal

    Yeah, I know what it is. It's still an abomination.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:21PM (2 children)

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:21PM (#554485) Journal

      Gets you drunk fast. So there's that...

      • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:40AM (1 child)

        by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Wednesday August 16 2017, @05:40AM (#554576) Journal

        You can chug vodka and get drunk significantly faster. So?

        Drinks like a Long Island Iced Tea are generally crafted for people who want to drink CHEAP booze and get drunk fast while ignoring the awful taste of the cheap booze. The Long Island Iced Tea is also an even worse abomination, because it's doing the effect of a sweet "girly" drink with loads of arbitrary shots in it, but it's a little more okay to order for a manly man.

        If you actually care about the taste of the things you're drinking, you order something else (often, thought not always, something with fewer ingredients, thereby allowing you to actually taste the components). If your goal is to get drunk, chug a bottle of hard liquor and it will work much better. If you're too sissy to do the latter, but don't want to order some red or orange sweet monstrosity to get drunk because it's too "girly", you order a Long Island Iced Tea.

        Hence, a Long Island Iced Tea is an abomination, both to people who care about the taste of their drinks and to those who actually know how to get drunk properly. Q.E.D.

        • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:30PM

          by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:30PM (#554700) Journal

          Thats some passionate hate you have for the long island iced tea.

          If you actually care about the taste of the things you're drinking

          That's why I drink beer.