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[LegoLord]

Now imagine what will happen when decorations are improved.

"On the chainmail is an image of the chainmail Catbear the Lion of Swiftness. On the image of Catbear there is an image of the chainmail Catbear the Lion of Swiftness. On the image of catbear there is an image of the chainmail Catbear the Lion of Swiftness. Ad infinitum."

Or just finally ending with "please forward this to ten other persons or you will die in three weeks".

I hate those messages.  They're so stupid.  How on earth can an electronic letter kill you?

[Draco18s]

I hate those messages.  They're so stupid.  How on earth can an electronic letter kill you?

Or get you sex, or make you lose your money, give you money...

Yeah, I don't know either.  I've scoffed at all of them so far, and guess what?  I'M STILL HERE.

[Jay]

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."
...Who the hell would believe that?

As for recursions...  Read the line below.
After reading this line, read the line above.

[Talion]

Believe is the right word though. Those letters are a form of religion, but meh, memes will be memes. I like Snowcrash's scifi twist on that kind of thinking.

As for recursions...  Read the line below.
After reading this line, read the line above.

The problem with that one is that it could be mistaken for a simple loop.
The best dictionary definition I've seen would be:
Recursion: See Recursion.

[The Grackle]

The problem is that artifacts aren't created in world gen yet.  And since your Horse leather vest is the first artifact in history, and there's a high chance for dwarf's to decorate items with images of items, you get a horse leather vest with an image of a horse leather vest in horse leather.   

Someday the dwarfs will make items with pictures of horse leather vests from a thousand years ago. 

[Inquisitor Saturn]

If DF was in DF, then the dorfs would never get anything done

[Demetrious]

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."
...Who the hell would believe that?

No kidding. Even considering that it's Microsoft, the idea of them having the audacity to charge real money for the sack of flaming fail that is Hotmail is amazing.

[shadow_archmagi]

I honestly did once get an artifact idol with a no less than three artifact idols on it. The language is such that I can't be sure if it's an idol with an idol with an idol on it, or just three idols side by side.

There was also a strawberry.

[Pilsu]

The problem is that artifacts aren't created in world gen yet.  And since your Horse leather vest is the first artifact in history, and there's a high chance for dwarf's to decorate items with images of items, you get a horse leather vest with an image of a horse leather vest in horse leather.   

Someday the dwarfs will make items with pictures of horse leather vests from a thousand years ago. 

I can somewhat stomach engravings depicting such a thing but pictures on items? Meh. We'd never see anything interesting ever again

[Rhodan]

There's already a topic about dwarven recursion: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=27288.0 

[Jurph]

Meme time:

"yo dawg i heard you like fortresses so we put a fort in your fort so you can play while you play."

Yo dorf I heard you like engravings, so I put an engraving in your engraving so you can get happy thoughts while you get happy thoughts.

[Jay]

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."
...Who the hell would believe that?

No kidding. Even considering that it's Microsoft, the idea of them having the audacity to charge real money for the sack of flaming fail that is Hotmail is amazing.

Apparently you're missing the entire obvious factor in that message.
Let me point it out in SuperBlatantlyObvious-O-Tron:

Spoiler: SuperBlatantlyObvious-O-Tron (click to show/hide)

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."

For one, there are no "directors of MSN" at all.
It's a part of Microsoft as you said.
Secondly, the chances that there'd be only TWO of them is highly unlikely.
And the chances of even those two being MARRIED is practically infinity to one.
Did I mention that his name is one of the most common names in the entire world, right next to John Doe?
For that matter, they wouldn't refer to MSN as a possessive noun (MSN will start charging money for hotmail) if they were legit.  In other words, if Microsoft were shutting down some specific function of Xbox Live, they would not say "Xbox Live will be shutting down Function X", they would say "We are shutting down Function X on Xbox Live" or "Microsoft will be shutting down Function X on Xbox Live."

Spoiler: See Spoiler.

[Demetrious]

Apparently you're missing the entire obvious factor in that message.
Let me point it out in SuperBlatantlyObvious-O-Tron:

The joke, which you have managed to miss, and then bludgeon to death, is that even Lord Mongol the Overseer of MSN would be more believable then anyone, ever, trying to charge money for MSN Hotmail. Because it's that bad.

 

[forsaken1111]

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."
...Who the hell would believe that?

No kidding. Even considering that it's Microsoft, the idea of them having the audacity to charge real money for the sack of flaming fail that is Hotmail is amazing.

Apparently you're missing the entire obvious factor in that message.
Let me point it out in SuperBlatantlyObvious-O-Tron:

Spoiler: SuperBlatantlyObvious-O-Tron (click to show/hide)

"Forward this to twenty other people or MSN will start charging money for hotmail...
From the two directors of MSN, Mary and Joe Smith."

For one, there are no "directors of MSN" at all.
It's a part of Microsoft as you said.
Secondly, the chances that there'd be only TWO of them is highly unlikely.
And the chances of even those two being MARRIED is practically infinity to one.
Did I mention that his name is one of the most common names in the entire world, right next to John Doe?
For that matter, they wouldn't refer to MSN as a possessive noun (MSN will start charging money for hotmail) if they were legit.  In other words, if Microsoft were shutting down some specific function of Xbox Live, they would not say "Xbox Live will be shutting down Function X", they would say "We are shutting down Function X on Xbox Live" or "Microsoft will be shutting down Function X on Xbox Live."

Spoiler: See Spoiler.

It just wasn't funny. The fact that you had to explain it in such detail should make that obvious.

[Strife26]

What's so bad about hotmail? I've never seen a reason to use anything else.