A cordial invitation

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http://twitter.com/nagmay Gabriel Nagmay

Well, are you planning to attend?
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  I have a prior engagement at the dick…
  
  http://tinyurl.com/fhl2e
  - http://twitter.com/m_d_o_o Michael D
    
    Too bad. I know the woman who runs DecodeDC. She’s pretty awesome.
  - Halloween_Jack
    
    I am unutterably enchanted by the “Please sir, I want some more” mugs.
  - awjt
    
    You can still come late.
teapot

I was once hit on by a guy in Tokyo. He and his twin brother were both gay… and their last name was Woody.

Anyway… give us some closure on this anecdote Rob!
..to a cock fight?
..to a cock ring show & tell?
..to a cockney accent party?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I was once hit on by a guy in Tokyo. He and his twin brother were both gay… and their last name was Woody.
  
  And yet, that’s still less homoerotic than Winklevoss.
- Snig
  
  ..to a cockatoo preening festival.
- nosehat
  
  ..to a cockamamie idea.
  …to a cockle shell, whose slender cup had by a wave been lifted up.
  …to a cocky cockroach’s and cocksure cockerel’s cockeyed cockup.
- Preston Sturges
  
  >>I was once hit on by a guy in Tokyo.
  Did you cockblock or coldcock him?
Trad Wall

Cock and Tail party! Fuck yeah I’m in! Forward to my facebook account please.
Boundegar

Cockroach eating contest.
https://twitter.com/misterjayem MrJM

cor·dial adj. 1. courteous and gracious; friendly; warm. 2. invigorating the heart; stimulating.
nixiebunny

Charge your battery already!
Josh Callaway

Nice placement with the Levi’s ad below: “Casual and classy, sophisticated but simple.”
Warren_Terra

Is the whole “joke” here really that “cocktail” has been truncated after the “k”? I like juvenile humor fine, but this is the internet; I expect better juvenile humor.
- Øyvind
  
  Then I’m sorry to say you’re probably in for a huge disappointment. (Though I’d love for you to be right)
- JPhilipp
  
  Might have the side effect of inspiring programmers how to optimize their abbreviation algos. If abbreviated version of word on blacklist, remove another letter… repeat until good.
  - http://scavenger-ethic.blogspot.com/ scav
    
    That’s not optimisation.
    
    Additional code complexity. Blacklist-based decision-making. Removing more information in a context where it already had to be abbreviated. Active attempt to avoid serendipitous humour, as though “rude” words had a net negative utility (against all the available evidence).
    
    I give that idea an F for software engineering and product design.
    - wysinwyg
      
      ”Optimum” is necessarily relative to the metric you choose. If your metric is based on user experience rather than performance then yes, this could be optimization.
    - JPhilipp
      
      You might overestimate the effort needed to deliver this on systems which already have such blacklist, e.g. for the spellchecker (which I presume may not necessarily want to autocorrect into something rude). Also, abbreviating “cocktail” to a *different* word — instead of a cut-off — may be no usability gain, because the brain could be more likely to misinterpret it if it makes (false) sense.
      
      > I give that idea an F for software engineering and product design.
      
      Oh wow. And so humble :)
- Boundegar
  
  No, the joke was much more complex and subtle. You didn’t get it?
Ron Harwood

“HP cordially invites you to a cocktail party featuring Far East Movement”
- http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
  
  ”HP cordially invites you to a cocktail party featuring Penis”
https://profiles.google.com/111727912783864891706 Graham

Hp cordially invites you to a cock-gobbling tech feast, with technology that would have been awesome 5 years ago!
Halloween_Jack

A cockfight, of course. Meg Whitman, tryin’ to shake things up.
joe blough

please say “cock boat”
please say “cock boat”
woooo! cock boat!
Øyvind

A cock AND 4G network? It seems Rob is really living it up.
sockdoll

A Cockatrice Cotillion?
Kristian Liptak

Kurwa means a hooker or whore in Slavic languages, so it makes a double fun for us speaking one of these languages.
That_Anonymous_Coward

Beware the inexpensive cock, the refill cartridges are where they make their money.
IronEdithKidd

Rob, you get the best email.
zaba

Where I work, we have to input our invoices into a proprietary program before sending them off to corporate. Every week, I get a little giggle when the vendor name for our frozen product (pina colada, daiquiri, etc.) is automatically truncated to “Island Oasis Frozen Cock”.
CLamb

You won’t have this problem on the popular matchmaking site PlentyOfFish.com . They have this aggressive filter which modifies potentially dirty words. “Cocktail” would be changed to “c*cktail”.
- http://bbc.co.uk/chinese cycle23
  
  Optimization!
http://newnumber6.livejournal.com Peter

…. and, I have a new pickup line.