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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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KP Lee22-Apr-13 10:17
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Chad3F22-Apr-13 11:38
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The "Kenny" reference was to indicate that the "They" context I was using was not a specific, or even tangible, group (such as an official standards body, like IETF, ISO, IEEE, ANSI, etc..). But instead was the unknown and mysterious "powers that be" (in the context of defining so-called "best" anything) that define "best practice" lists.

As for the origin behind the actual killing of Kenny.. I guess it started out as some form of joke in the show (e.g. this poor kid Kenny just can't catch a break), and just kept on going from there. Eventually they stopped doing it [regularly] (maybe they ran out of "interesting" ways for Kenny to die). I'm sure there is probably an official response from Trey Parker and/or Matt Stone (its creators) about the subject on some fan site/FAQ/forum out there.
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