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Re:Girls Who Code expands across the US by unimpressive on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:32AM (#5115539)
I know you were trying to be funny, but you weren't.

(As a tip for the future: It helps if you make it 99.9% clear that your kidding. Making the joke less horrifyingly creepy would help too.)

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Re:Girls Who Code expands across the US by sltkr on Friday January 25, 2013 @10:37AM (#5115862)
Even if it was a joke, that behaviour is obnoxious.

Not to be that guy, but XKCD is very relevant here: http://xkcd.com/322/

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Re:Girls Who Code expands across the US by unimpressive on Friday January 25, 2013 @04:03PM (#5117614)
That was the implication of "horrifyingly creepy.".
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Re:Girls Who Code expands across the US by easytiger on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:23AM (#5128576)
Yea i've been here over 5 years. The largely American participation doesn't seem somewhat deficient in humour capacity
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