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So eventually I got tired of wearing blank dog tags and want something coined on them. I just can't make my mind up what I'd like on them. So far there's "Organ Donor", "Unique", "Property of Black Mesa" and "Slave" on my list. But as none of these seems to strike quite the right chord I figured: what the hell: let's ask the Internet!

Only limit is that of space.

1st line 15 symbols,
2nd, 3rd and 4th lines 16 symbols,
5th line 15 symbols again. Alpha-numeric, naturally.

Looking forward to your suggestions. Feel free to point movie prop dog tags and similar ideas to me aswell.

Damn, no punctuation, no programs. I was going to suggest you put the forkbomb on it, but that kills that idea.

Out of the ideas you have up there, I like "Organ Donor" best.
"Property of Black Mesa" doesn't sound quite right... you might try something for the HECU, though.

There's a few punctuation but I don't think it'd be enough for any kind of ascii art: / - , . ; ' #

"Pronounced Dead"

"ON SALE"

I'll come up with more later.

If there were dollar signs I'd suggest a price tag, but that's where I came up with the ON SALE idea and that works just as well, I guess.

Property of Black Mesa.

Absolute best.

There's a few punctuation but I don't think it'd be enough for any kind of ascii art: / - , . ; ' #

Yeah, not having any parenthesis limits me to programming languages I don't know very well.

... actually, there are very few that don't use them, and most are obscure esoteric languages.
... like Shakespeare... and even that requires square brackets.

Plus you really only have about 78 characters to work with.

It could be in assembly... but then you'd run into the line limit

There's not really much you could do with it, either, and then there's the question of which assembly language to use (although I'm sure it would be some x86 derivative, as that's the most widely known).

...are you guys serious?

Like, really?

When's the last time you saw a programming joke on a dog tag?

Programming jokes are hilarious on anything.

THEN JUST GET A DOG TAG THAT SAYS "HELLO WORLD" IF YOU HAVE TO, I DON'T CARE

Anyway, to excersize my sense of humor:

- "MADE FROM REAL DOGS"
- "IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO ASYLUM"
- "YOU'RE TOO CLOSE TO ME, PLEASE BACK AWAY"

DON'T.
#####ING.
SAY.
HELLO.
WORLD.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUU UUUUUUGH

Our teacher taught us how to display text by showing us, "Screw you world!"

If I had a programmer's dog tag, it would simply be:

cout << "Insert name: "
cin >> myName1
cout << endl;

or something

A great source of essential soylent green.

Or like, Now with 80% more pancreas.

Or something else along the lines of Nutritional Information but weird/funny.

: White Shadow  19 March 2009, 12:54:53

There's a few punctuation but I don't think it'd be enough for any kind of ascii art: / - , . ; ' #

Yeah, not having any parenthesis limits me to programming languages I don't know very well.

... actually, there are very few that don't use them, and most are obscure esoteric languages.
... like Shakespeare... and even that requires square brackets.

Plus you really only have about 78 characters to work with.

And dogtags are often aligned left, which could ##### up the art if it's aligned at all differently.

Depends on what font you use and source the ASCII in; a monospace font like Lucida Console would retain the art.

Our teacher taught us how to display text by showing us, "Screw you world!"

If I had a programmer's dog tag, it would simply be:

cout << "Insert name: "
cin >> myName1
cout << endl;

or something

I... miss cout and cin sometimes.
Sometimes. They were only marginally easier to use than printf and scanf.
Really, what I miss are these << >> operators because they are amazing.

You could put something like "A dog tag? What the hell is a dog tag?"

Well, no, I just wanted to ask what a dog tag is.
So will I.
What's a dog tag?

---

Oh, wait, it's like tag, but dogs play it. Right? Right? Huh?

When in doubt... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_tag_(identifier))

I wasn't really in doubt, I just completely didn't know what it was.

He was saying you could have Google/Wikipedia search'd it.

I know. But doubts exist only if you do know something at least a bit and don't know something/ forgot something about it, right?

It's an idiom, actually, so it doesn't need to be semantically correct.

What's an idiom?
Now we restart the loop and all.
Or not. I'll just go to wikipedia.

When in doubt, use the Sloganizer.

http://www.sloganizer.net/en/

He was saying you could have Google/Wikipedia search'd it.

YOU'RE ONLY SUBBING PUNCTUATION FOR ONE CHARACTER AND IT'S PRONOUNCED THE EXACT SAME #####ING WAY

Aaand there goes my blood pressure.

Anyway... if you could do pictures I'd make it look like a dragon coin from Super Mario World, perhaps. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible, it'd just be a lot more difficult at the very worst.

     -:::.     
  `os/..-+yo`  
  s/``-y+s-os  
  y.//+yos/:h  
  yo/-:/s:oyh  
  y.:+oy/o+/h  
  h.```+/++:h  
  :y:..+::+h-  
   `+so+oo+`   

This is just about as close as you could get with it.
At least that's what text-image spat out.

That is not something I'd steer Mario toward.

No, it's more like something that makes you instinctively hold B and the opposite direction and hope it doesn't follow your ass.

Wasn't it Y?

... that's right.
I never actually had an NES long enough to get used to its ass-backwards control scheme.

No idea why they put B at the bottom.

You mean SNES.

Most games just gave the Y-Button the functions you'd normally give B anyway.

What REALLY sucks is trying to play GBA games on a DS with that problem. I know MegaMan Zero is practically unplayable with the DS button scheme, but I'm sure most of you would just say that's a good thing.

10 PRINT "I AM DEAD"
20 GO TO 10

I didn't mean with letters. I didn't mean whatever machine or whatever thing he's getting it from that only uses letters. I meant like, doing it another way. It's just an idea. It would take considerably more effort though.

That is not something I'd steer Mario toward.

If you're thinking symbolically, perhaps? I'm just thinking about something that you could put on a thing that you wear around your neck. I'm not exactly thinking about or understanding why not, anyway.

I was talking about the abomination of ASCII that Chron spat out.

10 PRINT "I AM DEAD"
20 GO TO 10

One of the better ideas so far. Still thinking about it.

... BASIC... barf. But it works, I'll give you that.

You mean SNES.

OK, apparently I was not using my brain to do think magic yesterday.

IT'S OKAY CHRON.

I still like "ON SALE" the best.

Ordered 3 pairs for my roomie and myself now.

All good. Soylent Green one made me laugh.

Yeah, great job. "Contains Toxic Material And/Or Ideas."

Who knew Vitamin B12 and Human Flesh went so well together?