College Debate...
A little while ago, I was at my favorite local restaurant minding my own business reading the Updated version of Ingo's Killer remoting book. I eat there regularly and use it as a time to catch up on my reading - then I usually go home and try out a few of the things I read about. Anyway, when I got there a few teenagers sat down in the booth behind me. What happened afterward just blew my mind:
Kid 1: “Dude, you're crazy, Clemson is way cooler than USC”
Kid2: “No way man, USC is way better, the frats are cooler and you can get way more Putang”
Kid1: “Dude, your wack, Clemson has mad parties and there chicks are way hotter.“
Kid3: “It's not PUTANG, It's PUNTANG“
Kid1: “Nuh uh - it's Putang you dork“
Kid2: “No it's not, it's PUN- TANG - with an N - why do you think they call it PUNE?“
Who can debate that logic? I don't know why I found this particularly funny, but I recall the legend about old school intellectuals/theologians arguing over how many angels could dance on the head of a needle. If this really happened, I really can't see how society has moved forward intellectually (although I can certainly tell you which discussion I'd rather partake in ). So as luck would have it, I just took a big swig of diet coke and was overcome with laughter - spitting diet coke through my nose I was laughing so hard. I couldn't have been more obvious. So the one kid says “See, even that dude knows that it's PUN TANG” which for some reason, made me laugh even harder. So there I was with my brand new book and smartphone slobbering diet coke all over them.
I know, I know, this is terribly immature and hardly appropo for a technical blog - so I actually decided to code it so I'd at least have some technical reason for such a mindless post. Btw, does anyone have any insight into which one is technically correct? That “Pune” argument wasn't rebutted so I'm leaning toward that as the better argument:
enum PropsectiveStudentCollege :uint
{
SouthCarolina = 0,
Clemson = 1
}
String GenetaliaSlang(PropsectiveStudentCollege college)
{
switch(college)
{
case PropsectiveStudentCollege.Clemson:
return "Putang";
case PropsectiveStudentCollege.SouthCarolina:
return "PuNtang";
default:
return "GetALifeBill";
}
}
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Update, after checking in the dictionary - it appears PoonTang is the technically correct way to pronounce it. I honestly can't believe it made it into the Dictionary