Comments on: For Demented Geek Parents with Kids

By: soda

soda — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:20:28 +0000

ejes:

that doesn’t match the song though

thanks for explaining why xp and vista behaved like that though

By: ejes

ejes — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:27:19 +0000

Steve and fluffman86,

you guys got that error since windows “cmd.exe” allows inline ‘if’ statements. unfortunately newer command interpreters will tell you that if doesn’t expect “are” or “happy” in a well formed if statement.

inversely you could use:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32> if “you’re happy and you know it complain about my syntax”
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:14:14 +0000

I got the same thing as fluffman86 when I tried it in Vista

By: Seaondra

Seaondra — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:27:08 +0000

OMG!
I used pre PC basic on an old C64 system…
Geeze, these things are really starting to show our ages!!! NOOO I am getting OLD!

LMAO

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:47:53 +0000

lolz, that made me giggle. I grew up on dos and windows 3.11. Sometimes I still get horrid dreams of “bad command or filename”.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:39:32 +0000

My favorite variation is:

If you’re happy and you know it, stick to your present dosage!

By: Aginoth

Aginoth — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:20:59 +0000

That’s great, as a thirty-mumble ex DOS user I got it immediately.

By: fluffman86

fluffman86 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:09:21 +0000

http://www.weekendmeltdown.com/images/happy_cmd.png

I tried this in Windows XP command prompt. Happy is unexpected at this time.

(screenshot above)

:’(

By: Alpaca The Awesome

Alpaca The Awesome — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:51:19 +0000

I haven’t even seen a DOS thingamajig (except maybe on Lost) and that’s funny.