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mph-humor Digest V97 #20
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mph-humor Digest Volume 97 : Issue 20
Today's Topics:
[alt.sysadmin.recovery] Re: Hardware psytons
How many...
Fwd: Re: ;-) - Intel Inside Your Hot Tub
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From: [email protected] (Anthony DeBoer)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: Hardware psytons
Date: 16 Apr 1997 09:32:30 -0400
Organization: Geac Computer Corporation
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Je wrote:
>[3] See www.upside.com for more thoughts on the eating habits of the
>rich and infamous.
Specifically under "companies" (http://www.upside.com/companies/),
and since they might come up with a different feature sooner or later,
I'll summarize. An interviewer claims to have run into Bill Gates in a
Burger King in Switzerland, and before getting down to questions about
what exactly MS was intending to do to the Internet next[1], he asks Bill
what exactly it is he's eating. Bill replies that he buys three regular
cheeseburgers, tosses out two buns, and combines everything else into
one monster burger. This of course cannot be eaten without making a
huge mess.
Although the article has a March 19th dateline, methinks the interviewer
was writing for an April 1st deadline.
[1] buy it, of course.
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Anthony DeBoer <[email protected]> #include <std.disclaimer>
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>Subject: (Fwd) How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to
>
>Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take
> to change a light bulb?
>
>A: 1,331:
> 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail
> list that the light bulb has been changed
> 14 to share similar experiences of changing light
> bulbs and how the light bulb could have been
> changed differently.
> 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
> 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about
> changing light bulbs.
> 53 to flame the spell checkers
> 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about
> the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness
> to this mail list.
> 41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames.
> 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and
> to please take this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb
> 203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar,
> alt.spelling and alt.punctuation about changing
> light bulbs be stopped.
> 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we
> are all use light bulbs and therefore the posts
> **are** relevant to this mail list.
> 306 to debate which method of changing light
> bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs,
> what brand of light bulbs work best for this
> technique, and what brands are faulty.
> 27 to post URLs where one can see examples of
> different light bulbs
> 14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and
> to post corrected URLs.
> 3 to post about links they found from the URLs that
> are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs
> relevant to this list.
> 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote
> them including all headers and footers, and then
> add "Me Too."
> 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing
> because they cannot handle the light bulb
> controversy.
> 19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three."
> 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
> 1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup.
> 47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion
> was meant for, leave it here.
> 143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.
--
Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?"
mailto:[email protected] "You uudecode it."
http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/gsutter/ "I I I decode it?"
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In article <[email protected]>
"Jay Riley" <[email protected]> writes:
> This tidbit is from:
>
> Eric Garrison, <[email protected]>
>
> Over the last few weeks I had been researching and evaluating different
> manufactures of hot tubs. I wandered into a local Hot Springs dealer and
> let the sales man give me his song and dance. Half way through his spiel,
> he mentions that all pump, temperature and pressure controls are
> regulated by an Intel Pentium processor!
>
> Needless to say, the thought of a GPF while soaking in the hot tub did
> not bring thoughts of relaxation and peace...So I bought a Caldera Spa.
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Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Sixty-seven percent of the doctors surveyed preferred X to Y. (Jones
couldn't be persauded.)
-John Allen Paulos
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