For a second or two I was like: " why the f*** is Obama talking about Weird Al making elevator music?"

Banter. Lots of friends/acquaintances do it, but I always fail to see the fun in it since 85% of the time people will go overboard and say insults in disguise of a joke.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the people I felt confortable with doing this

This is the epitome of what the Linux community loves to read on the internet. Got any distros in mind?