Inside jokes you have put into your work

maudgonner

It's hard to believe this isn't an April Fool's Day prank, but there's a plumbing company that's selling a toilet with the model name 'Uranus'.

It's a 'back-to-wall' model.
It's part of the 'contract Uranus range'

http://www.heatandplumb.com/acatalog/prestige-klpk089-uranus-back-to-wall-toilet-pan.html

Have you ever snuck a joke into something you've worked on? Been part of an epic Easter Egg in some software? Put some pornographic content in a children's cartoon?

HensVassal

Worked for a tiny software company in the 90's long since defunct. They let me go but not before I coded their software package so that instead of the "about" screen displaying company information and release version, users were greeted with a high-def image of porn queen Bianca Trump leering lasciviously at them with a large penis in her mouth. This was the master image that was used to mass produce the software on floppy disks, then packaged and distributed to stores.

endacl

HensVassal wrote: »

Worked for a tiny software company in the 90's long since defunct. They let me go but not before I coded their software package so that instead of the "about" screen displaying company information and release version, users were greeted with a high-def image of porn queen Bianca Trump leering lasciviously at them with a large penis in her mouth. This was the master image that was used to mass produce the software on floppy disks, then packaged and distributed to stores.

So....

Not so much putting a joke into your work as acting the dick and leaving us in no doubt as to their correct decision in letting you go?

If it actually happened, of course...

seamus

"Unprofessional?! Argumentative!? Unreasonable!? How dare they!? I'll show them how wrong they are by sabotaging their product!"

The King of Moo

I haven't done it myself, but I've seen two separate wordsearches in English-language Activity books with sex and **** in them, pretty clear to see.

I automatically scan wordsearches for filth now.

I also set myself the target in my Junior-Cert Irish class of including "an cluiche mór" in every example sentence I had to write.

In Leaving Cert we had to write an essay on the topic of the week in History. It soon became apparent that even though the teacher would collect them, he'd never look at them, so to save having to write so much (we had a certain page limit) I'd write a random word and then cross it out completely so it looked like I'd made a mistake. I did more and more of these, and they got longer. Soon I got lazy and would write the word "mistake" and just cross it out with a single line through it.
I'd also start each page two lines down from the actual top, and my margins were about two-inches wide. By the end I was probably writing fewer than 50 words.

I'd like to say I did something cheeky like write "Teacher, you are a gom and your teaching methods are ineffective at best!" but I didn't.

smash

This is the best I've seen

beach_walker

HensVassal wrote: »

...a high-def image of porn queen Bianca Trump leering lasciviously at them with a large penis in her mouth. This was the master image that was used to mass produce the software on floppy disks, then packaged and distributed to stores.

On a floppy? How high-def are we talking? Must have been compressed like crazy.

Oh and yeah, bad form old sport.

stimpson

I worked in a family friendly games company some time ago. There was a debug string in one of the games with several swear words in it, along with a comment saying this code will never be executed. Cue someone (not me!) releasing an update to the game compiled as Debug and several angry customers calling up to complain that their poor innocent children had been exposed to filth.

In the same company I talked one of the artists into sneaking in a cock and balls into all of his artwork, kind of like his signature. I still see them popping up in marketing material from time to time.

Olishi4

I worked on a sandwich deli when I was about 17 or 18.

Sometimes when people would make their order, I would repeat the order to myself loudly as I was making the sandwich.

If someone ordered say, chicken tikka, as I was going to put the chicken tikka on, I would say "and il just stick the fish on" and the customer would look confused and stop me and say "oh no no I don't want fish" and I'd say "ye I know..chicken tikka" and then they'd act relieved but also look at me confused.

Antar Bolaeisk

I've several error messages that tie in to that particular error number in some way shape or form. Unfortunately, most of the error messages are unlikely to ever be seen by anyone other than those reading the source code. I would love to be there the day someone rings up complaining about a divide by cucumber error though.

bodice ripper

I didn't think it was an inside joke, but apparently you need to be a certain age and a dork to get it.

longshanks

I mustn't be a certain aged dork. Which is a relief.

colm_mcm

A good few years ago, Opel designers hid shark images in the interior of a car, it was a joke between two designers. It went on to be a running thing for a few years.

Google Opel sharks or Vauxhall sharks for more.

bodice ripper

longshanks wrote: »

I mustn't be a certain aged dork. Which is a relief.

There is no Dana, only Zuul.

HensVassal

endacl wrote: »

So....

Not so much putting a joke into your work as acting the dick and leaving us in no doubt as to their correct decision in letting you go?

If it actually happened, of course...

Dry up, why don't you.

They were letting all the staff go because they were going bankrupt. Their first trick was to cut everyone's wages in half just because the boss couldn't balance a cheque-book let alone the company's budget. they were still selling some of the product, it was a personal organiser for the Macintosh. Maybe 50 a week

Everyone was bitter.

I later found out that the owner managed to secure $20 mill. in venture capital to startup a web-based music portal and he drove that into the ground as well.

HensVassal

beach_walker wrote: »

On a floppy? How high-def are we talking? Must have been compressed like crazy.

Oh and yeah, bad form old sport.

The whole application came on floppies and had to be extracted.
The image was nothing by today's standards.

RayM

This puzzle appeared in the Irish Independent a few years ago...

eamonnq

RayM wrote: »

This puzzle appeared in the Irish Independent a few years ago...

Is that authentic ?

Caliden

HensVassal wrote: »

The whole application came on floppies and had to be extracted.
The image was nothing by today's standards.

What's the application called?

Statute of limitations has already kicked in so you're in the clear.

Not so much an inside joke, but I work with a lot of Americans, some Egyptians and few other nationalities, and have them all well versed in Cockney rhyming slang and other Irish/English slang. It's like my special project.

My old boss began to habitually refer to his wife as me Julie, my current boss just can't Adam and Eve it when some total 'mare happens, and my new Egyptian friend expresses any incredulity as Yer havin' a larf!. My Russian friend describes nice ladies as being total rides.

And more, much more. Some they aren't even aware of.