Image memes

Programming memes | Railway memes | Star Wars memes | Supermarionation memes | Miscellaneous memes

Memes are meant to be copied and shared freely online, and a website isn't the best place to do that. Nevertheless these images do provide a snapshot of some of my interests and opinions over the years.

Obviously my intent in creating these images is not to offer balanced commentary on any subject. I hope that they may provoke thought or amusement rather than offence.

If you're the kind of person who came here to avoid all that ugly social media crap then I can only apologise and advise that you hit the back button.

Programming memes

Let's be honest, there should be a separate category for C++ alone, but let's start with my spin on a few classic images.

Distracted boyfriend (C developers) ogles a passing woman (goto) to the disgust of his girlfriend (else, break, continue, return).

Willy Wonka says 'The compiler converted your program to an integer constant? Tell me again how C is portable assembly language.'

Morpheus in the film 'The Matrix' asks 'What if I were to tell you tile maps are neither signed nor unsigned?'

Robin: 'typedef int handle;'. Batman (slapping Robin): 'typedef struct {int h;} handle;'.

Bjarne Stroustrup as The Joker in the 1989 film 'Batman', looks at a broken mask (here captioned 'Alicia++') on a mantelpiece and says 'I've recently had a tragedy in my life.'

Brian Kernighan holds a book copy of 'The C Programming Language' and says 'The syntax of the declaration for a variable mimics the syntax of expressions in which the variable might appear'. Bjarne Stroustrup replies menacingly: 'I am altering the syntax. Pray I don't alter it any further.'

How C looks to C++ (as a Heath Robinson machine) vs. how C++ looks to C (as a Picasso painting of a jumbled face).

The Mona Lisa's portrait has been defaced with the tasteless additions of as a badly-drawn yellow hat, an ampersand, sunglasses and a cigar. 'Within Mona Lisa++, there is a smaller and cleaner painting struggling to get out' says Bjarne Stroustrup.

Railway memes

We have Henry the Green Engine at home, and who doesn't love those inexplicably popular clickbait puzzle images? Incidentally, these two engines were never named, seen or heard of again.