Where Do Deleted Characters Go?

Agnishom · 2014-09-05 17:52:04

QUESTION: Where do the characters go when I use my backspace or delete them on my computer?

ANSWER: The characters go to different places, depending on whom you ask:

The Catholic Church's approach to characters: The nice characters go to Heaven, where they are bathed in the light of happiness. The naughty characters are punished for their sins. Naughty characters are those involved in the creation of naughty words, such as "math", "math" and "math"

The Buddhist explanation: If a character has lived rightly, and its karma is good, then after it has been deleted it will be reincarnated as a different, higher character. Those funny characters above the numbers on your keyboard will become numbers, numbers will become letters, and lower-case letters will become upper-case.

The 20th-century bitter cynical nihilist explanation: Who cares? It doesn't really matter if they're on the page, deleted, undeleted, underlined, etc. It's all the same.

The Mac user's explanation: All the characters written on a PC and then deleted go to straight to PC hell. If you're using a PC, you can probably see the deleted characters, because you're in PC hell also.

Stephen King's explanation: Every time you hit the (Del) key you unleash a tiny monster inside the cursor, who tears the poor unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their blood, then eats them, bones and all. Hah, hah, hah!

Dave Barry's explanation: The deleted characters are shipped to Battle Creek, Michigan, where they're made into Pop-Tart filling; this explains why Pop-Tarts are so flammable, while cheap imitations are not flammable. I'm not making this up.

IBM's explanation: The characters are not real. They exist only on the screen when they are needed, as concepts, so to delete them is merely to de-conceptualize them. Get a life.

PETA's (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) explanation: You've been DELETING them??? Can't you hear them SCREAMING??? Why don't you go CLUB some BABY SEALS while wearing a MINK, you pig!!!!

bobbym · 2014-09-05 19:51:08

I do not get it.

What is your favorite color, day of the week and ascii character?

ShivamS · 2014-09-06 02:18:07

Pretty funny, especially the last one.

Agnishom · 2014-09-06 02:35:59

My favorite color is Transparency.

Days of the Week have no basis in Reality, Perception or even Planetory motion.

My favorite ASCII character is 0x41 because it stands for {65, 108, 111, 107, 97, 110, 97, 110, 100, 97}

What is your favorite question of the type What is your favorite X?

bobbym · 2014-09-06 02:42:41

PETA has a point.

No basis in fact? Thursday is Thor's day.

Agnishom · 2014-09-06 03:31:02

Sunday is the day when God took rest

bobbym · 2014-09-06 03:36:54

Remember to keep holy the Lords day.

Wednesday's child is full of woe.

David · 2014-09-06 03:59:29

Actually, according to chooipian's theory of universal deleted character, they will still exist in a parallel universe.

bobbym · 2014-09-06 04:04:36

That place must be really weird with all those deleted characters in there.

David · 2014-09-06 04:35:57

No. What is weird is : how the hack did Agnishom managed to delete characters? Computer??

bobbym · 2014-09-06 04:40:10

He may have used the backspace key. It is a killer.

David · 2014-09-06 04:44:57

Hmm... Let's invert the back pain relieve key...

bobbym · 2014-09-06 04:46:34

I do not know about that one. Where is it?

David · 2014-09-06 04:47:43

Someone need to invent it. At least we still have the floor...

bobbym · 2014-09-06 04:49:27

That is the amazing part, no matter where you go there is always an area called the floor for us to stand, sit and lay down on.

David · 2014-09-06 04:52:05

Yup.

David · 2014-09-06 04:53:14

I need to lay down on the bed now. See you later bobbym.

bobbym · 2014-09-06 04:58:44

Okay and good luck for your speech.

David · 2014-09-06 05:15:33

Thanks. One more thing! What do you think of the website I made? http://www.alexkatko.com/ It's a birthday gift for a friend.

Agnishom · 2014-09-06 06:21:55

It looks nice but I don't understand what it is.

Where do you get domains from?

bobbym · 2014-09-06 06:53:00

Nice page. Needs some math.

David · 2014-09-06 16:48:21

I got the domains from Namecheap.com

Agnishom · 2014-09-06 16:51:07

Do they host the files or is the server at your home?

David · 2014-09-07 04:43:53

Google drive and weebly

Agnishom · 2014-09-09 01:30:28

What is weebly?

You cannot run a script of your choice on that domain?

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