Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Jousma, David
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2025 8:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VA vanity license plate of the day

HEX42 is my current plate

Palms up thumbs in, use remaining fingers to show x'42' in binary.


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
David Purdy <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2025 8:29:48 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: VA vanity license plate of the day




 My Unix coworker in Oregon had:
XQQQQ ME
David
    On Friday, September 19, 2025 at 08:04:28 AM EDT, Seymour J Metz 
<[email protected]> wrote:

 Gerhard z"l used to have NVCK (nug in microcode) and a neighbor used to have 
0x0000.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mason.gmu.edu/*smetz3__;fg!!MwwqYLOC6b6whF7V!k32iSCKR2fY9wOoM3FY6GHlRLRsvlxthcl8NNX0UCArH1XzV3OVViNf2wqdjnbA2cBkyfnqJ06fpd3e-o0dIzXUVf0c9NAmoO6s$
עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר




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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2025 8:00 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: VA vanity license plate of the day


External Message: Use Caution


I once found N777ERD* and G666EEK* (UK old-style prefix plates) on the same
day, but I was wary of the reputation vanity plates were gaining in UK at
the time.

*octal *nix file permissions, in case anyone else missed it :-)

Roops
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"Mundus sine Caesaribus"

On Thu, 18 Sept 2025, 14:31 Glenn Knickerbocker, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:21:22 +0000, Dick Williams <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >I always wanted to get IEFBR14 as my vanity plate.
>
> But you couldn't be bothered to do anything about it?
>
> ¬R
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