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I will always appreciate the old jokes like this. Never apologies for them no matter how cheesy!

My favorite from the 90's was, what does a computer and an air conditioner have in common? Both stop working when you open windows.

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Why is Linux like a Wigwam?

No Windows, no Gates and Apache inside.

TIL that wigwam and wickiup are two names for similar enough dwellings that we may consider them the same thing. I always thought that wigwams were bigger. They're usually called wigwams in the northeast among the Iroquois confederacy and wickiups in the southwest among the Apache.

I think the Iroquois were mostly associated with longhouses, not huts.

yeah I think my issue stems from getting taught that wigwam was a synonym for longhouse when we learned the terms in school in the Northeast (like dead in the middle of an Iroquois nation). Haudenosaunee (endonym for Iroquois) literally references the longhouse. Wigwam has nothing to do with longhouse! It's an Algonquian word (further East from the Iroquois). Will keep this in mind.

This reminds me of another old line:

"In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates?"

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