(Actually, this is going to Make HN Yell At Me, and maybe even Make HN Ban Me, since only Lisp programmers are going to get it, but it's too funny (if you're a lisp programmer), so in honor of the invention of the smiley, which started as a joke thread at CMU (by, btw, a lisp programmer!): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Orig-Smiley.htm ... :-)I asked an engineer for a quote. He said that he doesn't give quotes, but gave me one anyway. So it was an "unquote quote". The phrase "unquote quote" is a "quote unquote quote", which is a ...
If you don't see why this is funny, you're not a lisp programmer ... or maybe it's just not funny. :-(