You’re reading a post over on The Old New Thing (first clue) and come across the following comment (second clue, you’re actually reading the comments) from Jason Truesdell:
Redmond, WA, circa 2010. Forced to deal with misbehaving apps that use undocumented methods to force invocation of application compatibility shims, the app compatibility team created a shim to simulate the application compatibility shim mechanism. Shortly thereafter, the universe ceased to exist due to the hitherto-unknown metashim paradox.
Not only do you get the joke but you also laugh. Out loud.
Dave
Just because I can…