Couple or so years ago, a new developer was introduced to our area. Not on my team but he sat nearby. I let him get settled in for a couple of days, then went over to chat the following morning. Well, we started making smart ass programming jokes ... laughing and having so much fun. I don't remember how it came up but I said assembler programmers were always the strangest and weirdest people I had ever known. He was quiet for a few seconds ... then he told me his wife is an assembler programmer. I sat awkward and quiet a few seconds. There was not a shovel with a magic handle anywhere reachable ... impossible to dig myself out gracefully ... so I just said "oh" ... then I started making more obnoxious programming jokes and we picked right back up laughing ... I don't know what he was really thinking but I sure felt squirmy on the inside.
