Hmm.. C++ joke.   More of an apocryphal anecdote really.

<fx: Clears throat and settles down with a cup of coffee>

Cast your mind back to days gone by when men were men and real men coded 
in <insert your favourite language> etc. etc. etc.  C was the language 
and OO was coming to C.

Well it's announcement time.  Rumours were rife, the press was expectant 
 (and wined).  The venue? No doubt a large hall, serried ranks of 
journos, recorders and notepads at the ready, sitting with expectation 
as suits took the stand.

This was it.  Ripples of excited comments surged across the crowded hall 
as the riches of the promised land were expounded to an excited 
audience.  No more unmanagable and unstable code!  No more re inventing 
the wheel!  Projects would be completed on time *and* within budget! 
(ROFL)

Any way near the back of the Hall one journo, more predatory than the 
rest gently raised a query.

Journo. "Can you tell us, why the name? C++?" <fx: Gentle and 
        inquisitive smile>

Suit.   "Well you know if you're incrementing a variable?"  (Note the 
        slow speech as these difficult concepts are put over)

J.      "Yes"

S.      "Well, now you'll have to listen carefully to this bit, this is 
        'C' but it's better, yes?"

J.      "Yes"

S.      "Ok, 'C' is the variable, we're incrementing a variable, making 
        'C' better,  therefore........'*C++*' !!!!' <fx: puppy like 
        beaming smile as if waiting for pat on head>

J.      <fx: gently smiling (Yes think of crocodiles and sharks)> "So 
        this version of 'C' we will be using is.... before it's made 
        better?"

<fx: muffled snorts as suit stands with fixed "Why didn't marketing 
choose '++C'" look on face>

George