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by Intermernet 1728 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)
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Okay, I've never thought of NOP as "no 'P'", so this caught me completely by surprise and made me laugh out loud.
Reminds me of the drinking game called the "Land of Nod", you go in a circle making claims like "you can live in the Land of Nod, but you can't die there" or "you can listen to Nirvana in the Land of Nod, but not Dave Grohl" and hand out penalties of two fingers of your pint every time someone makes a statement that doesn't fit the rule. The only advice you give them is "the clue is in the name".

You can only play this game once with a particular group, but it's a good laugh.

Ha, I've played a similar game! Not sure I should spoil it but let's say that the mark ends up fixated on information from the audio channel
Getting a "Who's on First" vibe, but I can't quite make it into a real joke...

- "I can't get a p, no matter what I do there's no p at all!"

- "No p?"

- "Nope!"

- "Well if it's a no-op of course there's no p!"

- "It's not a no-op, I'm telling you there's no p!"

I was going to go with no p probably indicating an enlarged prostate.