Make me a ham sandwich

Earliest known poster for Make me a ham sandwich, HAL.

Context: "responses to 'please write me a C function for an artificial intelligence' are too funny to post here"

Bowman: Make me a ham sandwich, HAL.

HAL 9000: I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

Bowman: Sudo make me a ham sandwich, HAL.

In the News

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  2001: A Bacon Odyssey is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover a hybrid alien-bacon organism stowed away on their spaceship.

Fiction cross-reference

• 2001: A Bacon Odyssey
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• Post @ Twitter (6 December 2022)

• Sandwich @ xkcd

• Sudo @ Wikipedia

• https://youtube.com/watch?v=1iSbLVHpXwY 2001: A space Odyssey. Dave Bowman removes hot food from the oven. @ YouTube