Smalltalk Puns

I'm a second year university student. I was walking back to my room and walked into an acquaintance. We're both computer geeks more or less, and I was carrying my laptop with me. I started making some simple smalltalk when he noticed my laptop.

"Oh! Is that a Dell?"

Me: "oh!...Yeah! It's a Dell, but not the singer."

Continued to walk past, as this encounter took an entire 10 seconds at most

Random passerby that overheard in a hearty tone: "Hey! That was funny!"

I went in to get a new battery for my watch and while he was working we were making smalltalk. I mentioned that I just got back from doing study abroad in Ireland, and he asked:

"Which one?"

Took me a second.

It asked for a pick-up line using topics from our class (Programming Languages). Here's what I wrote:

>Smalltalk is nice, but how about a date over a nice cup of Java?

^My ^first ^dad ^joke! ^^I'm ^^so ^^proud ^^of ^^myself

Friend, while looking at a textbook: This is Smalltalk, the language Objective-C was based on. I kinda see why, with all the weird brackets.

Me: Would you say you...Objective-ly C why?