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submitted 5 months ago by n3cr0@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] toastus@feddit.de 98 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] bobbytables@feddit.de 79 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really love it, too.

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

username checks out

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

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 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 10 points 5 months ago

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 5 months ago

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

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Logh@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or one of Bob Mortimer’s childhood friends.

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sniper's dream we used to call him