A B On A Caret Patch

[granz]

A bee on a carrot patch

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From: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/vintage-computing/ascii-art/msg6029587/#msg6029587

[Chris Savage]

Oh, my! 

[JKnightandKARR]

Sometimes I just don't get the jokes... lol

[granz]

Sometimes I just don't get the jokes... lol

"A Bee on a carrot patch" referring to an insect (the bee) on a patch of ground containing the vegetable (carrots). While the same-sounding "A B on a caret patch" refers to the letter ("B") on a patch of screen containing the caret character ("^"). It's pretty subtle, especially if you don't know the name of the character that is often used to denote raising a number to a power (as in 3^2=9 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret).

[JKnightandKARR]

Sometimes I just don't get the jokes... lol

"A Bee on a carrot patch" referring to an insect (the bee) on a patch of ground containing the vegetable (carrots). While the same-sounding "A B on a caret patch" refers to the letter ("B") on a patch of screen containing the caret character ("^"). It's pretty subtle, especially if you don't know the name of the character that is often used to denote raising a number to a power (as in 3^2=9 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret).

Got it, I think. Not very happy right now...