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If the image was HTML, this would be the caption:

https://mytechrants.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/you-cant-parse-html-with-regex/

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Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The <center> cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes.

That is funny as fuck. I've definitely used regex to parse HTML before. More along the lines of find any matching text between these two tags.