Quick reminder when working on DBs

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toastus@feddit.de · 96 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Little Bobby Tables is my favorite XKCD strip of all time, and I don't even actively work with databases.

bobbytables@feddit.de · 77 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I really love it, too.

frankenswine@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y (1 reply)

username checks out

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y

the joke was actually named after him. This is the Sir Robert Tableton that served as the basis of the entire joke premise.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That whole story line of the hacker mom is wild. As far as I recall little Bobby did not inherit his mother's skills.

bobbytables@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y

Nah, he used to work with databases but it's really not his passion.

Jolteon@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
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jaybone@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I think there’s people that don’t know what xkcd is, who have heard this joke.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 21 pts · 2y

Maybe people who do but haven't as well. Like, say, around 10,000 of them.

(In case you're OOTL)

WarmSoda@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Little Bobby Tables does sound like something out of a classic comedy movie

Logh@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Or one of Bob Mortimer’s childhood friends.

themusicman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Sniper's dream we used to call him