• Hmmmm (unregistered)

    Well, once you get a 'fudge', then all you have to do is perform a linear search by adding in many more try/except-fudge statements until you find the culprit; duh!

  • (nodebb)

    What the fudge!

  • Robin (unregistered)

    "we mostly try to keep profanity off our main page"

    The big WTF in the site's name stands for What The Fudge, presumably!

  • (nodebb) in reply to Robin

    Worse Than Failure

    https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-worse-than-failure

    There's history there. 😆 BTW instead of A Christmas Story I was expecting to see The Good Place

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPXsYOPex4s
  • (nodebb) in reply to Hmmmm

    all you have to do is perform a linear search by adding in many more try/except-fudge statements until you find the culprit; duh!

    Binary search, duh!

  • Jaloopa (unregistered) in reply to AGlezB

    Holy forking shirtballs, that's a good reference

  • Hmmmm (unregistered) in reply to d-coder

    Except that would be smart(er) and fast(er)...

  • Robin (unregistered) in reply to AGlezB

    Ha, I was actually aware of the "worse than failure" thing (it's from long before I was reading the site, or indeed working in anything related to IT, but I've spent a fair while reading older articles here...)

  • (nodebb)

    There was an episode of the Bill Cosby show (the 60's one, not the 80's sweater wearing one) where his basketball team was having trouble with swearing. He instituted a rule that if you swore, you had to run 10 laps, and if anyone laughed, you had to run 10 laps backwards. So in the climactic scene, a player made a mistake and was about to swear, but refrained and belted out "Oh...Double marshmallow!" That's still my go-to.

  • (nodebb)

    Johnny Dangerously did this brilliantly with Roman Moroni: "I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves".

  • (nodebb) in reply to AGlezB

    Worse Than Failure https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-worse-than-failure There's history there. 😆

    I'm afraid that spec is out of date. For the most recent spec, please see https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Announcement-A-New,-New,-New-Name!

    Therefore, the current canonical name of this site is: “The Daily WTF.”

    Addendum 2026-06-11 10:02: Note that the exclamation point above is actually part of the URL.

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