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[Arkie]

So, i was looking trough some of the code of an application i've wrote some time ago ( http://www.engineeringser...12/28/tenant-application/ ) and I noticed that for some reason I wrote some really useless comment in my code. Check this:

Code

GeSHi (java):
	//Since i don't have a printer here i cant write and test a printer application.. 
	//so i wrote a CLI letter.
 
	public void printWaitingLetter(){
		System.out.println("");
		System.out.println("*************Printing waiting letter*****************");
		System.out.println("Name:\t\t " + nameResult);
		System.out.println("Adress:\t\t " + adressResult);
		System.out.println("Postcode:\t\t " + postcodeResult);
		System.out.println("Phone:\t\t " + phoneResult);
		System.out.println("Renting:\t " + rentingResult);
		System.out.println("");
		System.out.println("Details: your request is confirmed and waiting.");
		System.out.println("*****************************************************");
	}
Created by GeSHI 1.0.7.20

Code

GeSHi (java):
	JLabel rentingLbl = new JLabel("Already renting?"); // already renting?
	String options[] = {"unknown" , "yes", "no"};
	JComboBox rentingCbox = new JComboBox(options); //combo, weeeeeh!
Created by GeSHI 1.0.7.20

Anyone else wrote comment in their code that were totally unneccesary and makes you wanna laugh after reading it a few months later ? 

[Depress]

Whoaawh, nice, but what is your point?

For personal use this is funny, but in a professional environment i think it is not appropriate. You are creating something for a customer, he might not like it. Not good;)

[Arkie]

Whoaawh, nice, but what is your point?

For personal use this is funny, but in a professional environment i think it is not appropriate. You are creating something for a customer, he might not like it. Not good;)

Just wanted to ask if anyone here made funny comments in their code. I also doubt customers will look in the code directly because they are generally not developers and just want to use whatever software we create for them.

Oh,  and let me be the first to say welcome to the forums   

[Depress]

That's a point, but still not totally true.
Often costumers outsource some work to let there own personnel validate our complete the code. For example secret code/projects that need to be fitted in.

I use comments to explain some code or divide the code into sections. Jokes are for the pub;)
So i don't do jokes in code;)

[Arkie]

That's a point, but still not totally true.
Often costumers outsource some work to let there own personnel validate our complete the code. For example secret code/projects that need to be fitted in.

I use comments to explain some code or divide the code into sections. Jokes are for the pub;)
So i don't do jokes in code;)

I guess so, however I did work on a few professional open source projects with developers all around the world and some of them added funny comments in their code. (although it did reflect the purpose of their code) I guess i'm the only one here that writes unneccesary comments in the sourcecode. I don't do it a lot though but when I see an occasion that calls for laughter i'll do it to have a quick laugh with the team