Re-Curse You, Recursion
A student is stuck retaking a recursion class whose final exam tells you to retake the class, a loop with no base case.
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A: "Ugh. I hate this recursion class." B: "I thought you took that last semester."
A: "I did. But the last question on the final instructed you to take the entire class again, verbatim, from the start. *sigh* Just a few more weeks, then I'm done for real."
B: "But... what happens when you get to that question again?" A: "RE-CURSE YOU, RECURSION"