An Engineer's Choice
An engineer was walking on campus one day when his friend,
another engineer, rode up on an incredible shiny new bicycle. The
first engineer
was stunned and asked, "Where did you get such a nice bike?" The
second engineer replied,
"Well, yesterday I was walking along minding my
own business when a beautiful woman rode up to me on this
bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and
said, 'Take what you want!'" The second engineer nodded approvingly, "Good
choice, the clothes probably wouldn't have fit."
To: Michael J. Day/ITG/ISD/Maxwell
cc:
Subject: FW: 100 reasons it's great to be a guy
This one is for you!
-----Original Message-----
1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2. Movie nudity is virtually always female.
3. You know stuff about tanks.
4. A five day vacation requires only one suitcase.
5. Monday Nite Football.
6. You don't have to monitor your friends sex lives.
7. Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.
8. You can open all your own jars.
9. Old friends don't give you crap if you've lost or gained weight.
10. Dry cleaners and haircutter's don't rob you blind.
11. When clicking through the channel, you don't have to stop at every
shot of someone crying.
12. Your ass is never a factor in a job interview.
13. All your orgasms are real.
14. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
15. Guys in hockey masks don't attack you.
16. You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you
go.
17. You understand why 'Stripes' is funny.
18. You can go to the bathroom with out a support group.
19. Your last name stays put.
20. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
21. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone
secretly hates you.
22. You can kill your own food.
23. The garage is all yours.
24. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
25. You see the humor in Terms of Endearment.
26. Nobody secretly wonders if you swallow.
27. You never have to clean the toilet.
28. You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.
29. Sex means never worrying about your reputation.
30. Wedding plans take care of themselves.
31. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still
be you friend.
32. Your underwear is $10 for a three pack.
33. The National College Cheerleading Championship
34. None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.
35. You don't have to shave below your neck.
36. You don't have to curl up next to a hairy ass every nite.
37. If your 34 and single nobody notices.
38. You can write your name in the snow.
39. You can get into a nontrivial pissing contest.
40. Everything on your face stays its original color.
41. Chocolate is just another snack.
42. You can be president.
43. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.
44. Flowers fix everything.
45. You never have to worry about other people's feelings.
46. You get to think about sex 90% of your waking hours.
47. You can wear a white shirt to a water park.
48. Three pair of shoes are more than enough.
49. You can eat a banana in a hardware store.
50. You can say anything and not worry about what people think.
51. Foreplay is optional.
52. Michael Bolton doesn't live in your universe.
53. Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into the room.
54. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.
55. You don't have to clean your apartment if the meter reader is coming
by.
56. You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.
57. Car mechanic tell you the truth.
58. You don't give a rat's ass if someone notices your new haircut.
59. You can watch a game in silence with you buddy for hours without
even
thinking. "He must be mad at me".
60. The world is your urinal.
61. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is
about to leave you.
62. You get to jump up and slap stuff.
63. Hot wax never comes near you pubic area.
64. One mood, all the time.
65. You can admire Clint Eastwood without starving yourself to look like
him.
66. You never have to drive to another gas station because this one's
just too scary.
67. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.
68. You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you are wearing.
69. Same work....more pay.
70. Gray hair and wrinkles add character.
71. You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch
adjustment.
72. Wedding Dress $2000; Tux rental $100.
73. You don't care if someone is talking about you behind your back.
74. With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the earth's
population in 15 tries, at least in theory.
75. You don't mooch off others' desserts.
76. If you retain water, it's in a canteen.
77. The remote is yours and yours alone.
78. People never glance at your chest when your talking to them.
79. ESPN's sports center.
80. You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
81. Bachelor parties whomp ass over bridal showers.
82. You have a normal and healthy relationship with your mother.
83. You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.
84. You needn't pretend you're "freshening up" to go to the bathroom.
85. If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell
you
friends you've changed.
86. Someday you'll be a dirty old man.
87. You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "F*#k it!"
88. If an other guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might
become lifelong buddies.
89. Princess Di's death was almost just another obituary.
90. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
91. You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because your not in the
mood.
92. You think the idea of punting a small dog is funny.
93. If something mechanical didn't work, you can bash it with a hammer
and throw it across the room.
94. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
95. Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind.
96. You don't have to remember everyone's birthdays and anniversaries.
97. Not liking a person does not preclude having great sex with them.
98. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So ... notice
anything different?"
99. Baywatch
100. There is always a game on somewhere.
A newlywed farmer and his wife were visited by her mother, who immediately
demanded an inspection of the place. While they were walking through the
barn, the farmer's mule suddenly reared up and kicked the mother-in-law in
the head, killing her instantly.
At the funeral service a few days later, the farmer stood near the casket
and greeted folks as they walked by. The pastor noticed that whenever a woman
would whisper something to the farmer, he would nod his head yes and say
something. Whenever a man walked by and whispered to the farmer, he would
shake his head, no and mumble a reply.
Curious, the pastor later asked the farmer what that was all about.
The farmer replied, "The women would say, 'What a terrible tragedy' and I
would nod my head and say, 'Yes, it was.' The men would ask, 'You wanna
sell that mule?' and I would shake my head and say, 'Can't. It's all booked
up
for a year.'"
Three boys were alongside a fence. On the other side of the fence a naked
woman was sunbathing. Curious to see what's on the other side, the two
older boys told the youngest one to see what's on the other side of the
fence. The youngest boy was scared at first, but the two older boys wre
adamant and determined to see what's on the other side. So they pushed
the youngest boy up. When they asked what he saw, he ran straight home.
On another day the boys did it again. And again they asked the youngest
boy what he saw. And again he ran home.
Finally on the day after that they did the same routine but this time they
caught the boy as he was leaving. They asked him why he ran. The boy
replied, "Because my mom told if I look at naked woman I'll turn to
stone and I was scared because I felt myself getting hard."
A journalist had done a story on gender roles in Kuwait several years before
the Gulf War, and she noted then that women customarily walked about 10 feet
behind their husbands. She returned to Kuwait recently and observed that the
men now walked several yards behind their wives. She approached one of the
women for an explanation.
"This is marvelous," said the journalist. "What enabled women here to achieve
this reversal of roles?"
Replied the Kuwaiti woman: "Land mines"
10 things that would be different if Microsoft made cars...
1. A particular model year of car wouldn't be available until
after that year instead of before it.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would
have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and
you would have to restart it. For some strange reason,
you would just accept this.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless
you bought a Car95 or CarNT. But then you would have to
buy more seats.
5. Sun Motorsystems would make a car that was powered by the
sun, twice as reliable and five times as fast - but it
would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
6. The oil, engine, gas, and alternator warning lights would
be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
7. People would get excited about the "new" features in
Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been
available in other cars for years.
8. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas.
9. The U.S. Government would be getting subsidies from an
automaker, instead of giving them.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
Five reasons computers must be females......
5. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
4. Even your smallest mistakes are immediately committed to memory for
future reference.
3. The native language used to communicate with other computers is
incomprehensible to everyone else.
2. The message, "Bad command or filename," is about as informative as "if
you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell
you."
1. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half
your paycheck on accessories for it.
Five reasons computers must be males.....
5. Left to their own devices, they will just sit there and do nothing. To
get them to do anything for you, you first have to turn them on. If you
don't keep them turned on, they won't do anything for you.
4. They require your undivided attention. Once you start paying any
attention to them, you will find them taking more and more of your
attention to the point of having no time to deal with anything else.
3. When giving them instructions, the instructions have to be extremely
simplified and specific. You cannot tell them that something is on the
hard drive, you have to tell them exactly _where_ it is on the hard drive,
and the specific steps to find it, otherwise they can't see it, the same as
if you tell a male that something is in the refrigerator, if it isn't right
there in front of his face, he can't see it.
2. They allow themselves to be used by anyone - to them fidelity and
loyalty are just words.
1. Chances are they'll crash at a critical time, before the job is finished.
Bill Gates died and, much to everyone's surprise, went to
Heaven. When he got there, he had to wait in the reception area.
Heaven's reception area was the size of Massachusetts. There
were literally millions of people milling about, living in tents with
nothing to do all day. Food and water were being distributed from
the backs of trucks, while staffers with clipboards slowly worked
their way through the crowd.
Booze and drugs were being passed around. Fights were commonplace.
Sanitation conditions were appalling. All in all, the scene looked
like Woodstock gone metastatic.
Bill lived in a tent for three weeks until, finally, one of the
staffers approached him. The staffer was a young man in his late
teens, face scarred with acne. He was wearing a blue T-shirt with
the words TEAM PETER emblazoned on it in large yellow lettering.
"Hello," said the staffer in a bored voice that could have been
the voice of any clerk in any overgrown bureaucracy. "My name is
Gabriel and I'll be your induction coordinator." Bill started to ask
a question, but Gabriel interrupted him. "No, I'm not the Archangel
Gabriel. I'm just a guy from Philadelphia named Gabriel who died in
a car wreck at the age of 17. Now give me your name, last name
first, unless you were Chinese in which case it's first name first."
"Gates, Bill." Gabriel started searching though the sheaf of
papers on his clipboard, looking for Bill's Record of Earthly Works.
"What's going on here?" asked Bill. "Why are all these people here?
Where's Saint Peter? Where are the Pearly Gates?"
Gabriel ignored the questions until he located Bill's records.
Then Gabriel looked up in surprise. "It says here that you were the
president of a large software company. Is that right?"
"Yes."
"Well then, do the math chip-head! When this Saint Peter
business started, it was an easy gig. Only a hundred or so people
died every day, and Peter could handle it all by himself, no problem.
But now there are over five billion people on earth. Jesus, when
God said to 'go forth and multiply,' he didn't say 'like rabbits!'
With that large a population, ten thousand people die every hour.
Over a quarter-million people a day. Do you think Peter can meet
them all personally?"
"I guess not."
"You guess right. So Peter had to franchise the operation.
Now, Peter is the CEO of Team Peter Enterprises, Inc. He just sits
in the corporate headquarters and sets policy. Franchisees like me
handle the actual inductions." Gabriel looked though his paperwork
some more, and then continued. "Your paperwork seems to be in order.
And with a background like yours, you'll be getting a plum job
assignment."
"Job assignment?"
"Of course. Did you expect to spend the rest of eternity
sitting on your ass and drinking ambrosia? Heaven is a big
operation. You have to pull your weight around here!" Gabriel took
out a triplicate form, had Bill sign at the bottom, and then tore out
the middle copy and handed it to Bill.
"Take this down to induction center #23 and meet up with your
occupational orientator. His name is Abraham." Bill started to ask
a question, but Gabriel interrupted him. "No, he's not *that*
Abraham."
* * * * * * * * * * *
Bill walked down a muddy trail for ten miles until he came to
induction center #23. He met with Abraham after a mere six-hour
wait.
"Heaven is centuries behind in building its data processing
infrastructure," explained Abraham. "As you've seen, we're still
doing everything on paper. It takes us a week just to process new
entries."
"I had to wait *three* weeks," said Bill. Abraham stared at Bill
angrily, and Bill realized that he'd made a mistake. Even in Heaven,
it's best not to contradict a bureaucrat. "Well," Bill offered,
"maybe that Bosnia thing has you guys backed up."
Abraham's look of anger faded to mere annoyance. "Your job will
be to supervise Heaven's new data processing center. We're building
the largest computing facility in creation. Half a million computers
connected by a multi-segment fiber optic network, all running into a
back-end server network with a thousand CPUs on a gigabit channel.
Fully fault tolerant. Fully distributed processing. The works."
Bill could barely contain his excitement. "Wow! What a great
job! This is really Heaven!"
"We're just finishing construction, and we'll be starting
operations soon. Would you like to go see the center now?"
"You bet!"
Abraham and Bill caught the shuttle bus and went to Heaven's new
data processing center. It was a truly huge facility, a hundred
times bigger than the Astrodome. Workmen were crawling all over the
place, getting the miles of fiber optic cables properly installed.
But the center was dominated by the computers. Half a million
computers, arranged neatly row-by-row, half a million ....
.... Macintoshes ....
.... all running Claris software! Not a PC in sight! Not a
single byte of Microsoft code!
The thought of spending the rest of eternity using products that
he had spent his whole life working to destroy was too much for Bill.
"What about PCs???" he exclaimed. "What about Windows??? What
about Excel??? What about Word???"
"You're forgetting something," said Abraham.
"What's that?" asked Bill plaintively.
"This is Heaven," explained Abraham. "We need a computer system
that's heavenly to use. If you want to build a data processing
center based on PCs running Windows, then ....
.... GO TO HELL!"
A guy gets home from work one day and finds his dog lying on the floor, feet
straight up in the air. He shakes him and prods him but the dog doesn't
get up, so he calls the vet. The vet comes, examines the dog and says, "I'm
sorry, but your dog is dead."
The guy says, "But he can't be dead! He was fine this morning. Maybe he's
just in a coma or something. Isn't there anything you can do?"
The vet says, "Okay. I'll try one more thing." He pulls a kitten out of his
bag and rubs it over the dog's face. Nothing happens. He rubs it over
the rest of the dog's body. Nothing happens. "See," he says, "I told you,
the dog is dead. I'm very sorry, but there's nothing I can do."
The guy says, "Okay, okay, I believe you. How much do I owe you?"
"$375," the vet tells him.
"$375??? Just for telling me my dog's dead?"
"No, that's only $75. The other $300 is for the Cat Scan."
Immediately scan your computer for the following viruses:
PAT BUCHANAN VIRUS: Your system works fine, but it complains loudly
about
foreign software.
COLIN POWELL VIRUS: Makes its presence known, but doesn't do anything.
Secretly, you wish it would.
HILLARY CLINTON VIRUS: Files disappear, only to reappear mysteriously a
year later, in another directory.
O.J. SIMPSON VIRUS: You know it's guilty of trashing your system, but
you
just can't prove it.
BOB DOLE VIRUS: Could be virulent, but it's been around too long to be
much
of a threat.
STEVE FORBES VIRUS: All files are reported as the same size.
PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It
warns you of impending hard disk attack: Once, if by LAN; twice if by
C:.
POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS: Never identifies itself as a "virus," but
instead refers to itself as an "electronic micro-organism."
ROSS PEROT VIRUS: Activates every component in your system, just
before the whole thing quits.
TED TURNER VIRUS: Colorizes your monochrome monitor.
DAN QUAYLE VIRUS (#2): Their is sumthing rong with your komputer, but
ewe cant figyour outt watt!
GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic
software says everything is fine.
NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS: Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people
really mad just thinking about it.
FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS: Divides your hard disk into hundreds of
little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim
to be the most important part of your computer.
GALLUP VIRUS: Sixty percent of the PC's infected will lose 30 percent
of their data 14 percent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin
of error).
TEXAS VIRUS: Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file.
ADAM AND EVE VIRUS: Takes a couple bytes out of your Apple.
CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS: The computer locks up, and the screen splits in
half with the same message appearing on each side of the screen. The
message says that the gridlock is caused by the other side.
AIRLINE LUGGAGE VIRUS: You're in Dallas, but your data is in
Singapore.
FREUDIAN VIRUS: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own
motherboard.
PBS VIRUS: Your programs stop every few minutes to ask for money.
ELVIS VIRUS: Your computer gets fat, slow, and lazy, then
self-destructs, only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations
across rural America.
OLLIE NORTH VIRUS: Causes your printer to become a paper shredder.
NIKE VIRUS: Just does it.
SEARS VIRUS: Your data won't appear unless you buy new cables, power
supply, and a set of shocks.
JIMMY HOFFA VIRUS: Your programs can never be found again.
KEVORKIAN VIRUS: Helps your computer shut down as an act of mercy.
STAR TREK VIRUS: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone
before.
HEALTH CARE VIRUS: Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong,
and sends you a bill for $4,500.
From: The Downes Family
To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: Jokes...
Here's one that I FINALLY got:
THE CONDUCTOR
There once was this guy who worked for the Railroad as a conductor.
Let's say his name was Joe. Well, Joe was walking
through the train, en route, collecting tickets from the passengers. He
comes to car 12, booth 3. In it is this beautiful woman.
She had curves in all the right places, her skin was just tan enough to
give a healthy look.. well, you know what I mean.
So, he asked her for her ticket:
"Excuse me ma'ma, do have your ticket?"
"Oh, I am soooo sorry, I dropped it out the window by accident," she
replied.
"Sorry, ma'am can't have any passengers without tickets." He grabbed her
by the scruff of the neck and threw her out of the
train. Well, she landed on the tracks, was run over by the train.
Naturally, the conductor was arrested, thrown in jail. He was
convicted of murder before a jury of his peers, and sentenced to death
by electrocution.
The day of his execution came up, and he was asked what he would like
for his last meal. He ask of a banana. They gave it to
him, he ate it, received his last rites, and was escorted to the chair.
The executioner strapped him in, hooked everything up.
Last, he threw the big switch once, and nothing happened. So, he did it
again,and nothing happened. Well, by law the
conductor was legally dead, so they had to release him.
Oddly enough, the guy got a job on another railroad, as a condustor! One
day, he was gathering tickets, and came to a booth
with a little boy.
"Young man, do you have your ticket?", asked the conductor.
"A-a-a, I'm sorry, I ate it by mithtake..", said the little boy.
And.. the same thing happened-- the boy was thrown off the train and
killed. The guy was arrested, sentenced to death by
electricution. It came to him last day. The death row guard asked him
what he would like for his meal. He asked for banana
again. He ate it, and a priest gave him last rites.
He was escorted to the death chamber. This time, though, they were
smart. They washed his hands to get rid of any banana
slime, they washed up the chair. Next, they placed him the chair, and
hooked him up. The switch- puller pulled the switch
once, and nothing happened. The switch-puller pulled the switch twice,
and nothing happened, not even a single hair
raising on the guy's chest.
Well, as the law says, they had to let him go...
Even more amazingly, he got a job on yet another railroad.
This time it was a rabbi. Same old stuff. Rabbi had no ticket (he forgot
to buy it). Guy threw him off the train, rabbi died. Guy
was arrested, convicted, sentenced to death by electrocution.
When the guard asked him what he would like for a last meal, he asked
for a banana. He ate it, received last rights, and was
escorted to the chamber.
However, this time the officials where going to get it right! They
scrubbed his body with a brillo pad. They scrubbed the chair
with steel wool. They tried the chair on a few other prisoners...
Okay, they strapped him in, and threw the switch once, nothing happened.
Threw the switch a second time, nothing
happened. At this point the guy was legally dead, etc, etc.
But, before the guy could leave, the executioner, extremely frustrated
(he'd seen this same guy three times already). asked,
"What is it with the banana!"
The guy replied, "I just like bananas."
So, the executioner screamed, "THEN HOW COME YOU DON'T DIE!!!!!"
"I dunno," replied the guy, "I guess I'm just not a very good
conductor."
Woman has been in a coma for 10 years with absolutely no response at
all. One day the nurse is giving the woman a sponge bath and when she
cleans the woman's vagina area the woman moans. Now the nurse is
absolutely stunned, this is the first sound the comatose woman has
uttered in 10 years. So she tries rubbing the vagina again to see what
happens. This time the woman moans even louder. So the nurse rushes
out to talk to the doctor. The doctor and other specialists discuss it
for awhile and decide that they are going to have to get the husband
involved. So they call the husband to the hospital and explain what has
happened. They tell him they what to try something. "We would like you
to have oral sex with your wife. Now we will set up electronic
monitoring equipment in the room and will give you complete privacy".
The man thinks about it for a while and agrees. The doctors set up the
room and then usher the husband in and shut the door.
Outside they sit in front of the monitors. For a while there is
absolutely no response on any of the monitors, suddenly they all go nuts
for a few minutes then flat line. The doctors go rushing into the room
to see what has happened. As they enter the room they find the husband
just zipping up his fly.
"What happened?" they ask.
He replies "I don't know, she must have choked on it."
****
Man is on his way home from work driving thru the tunnel and decides he
wants a hand job. Gets to the other side of the tunnel and sees a
hooker.
He pulls over and asks the hooker:
"How much for a Hand Job?"
The Hooker replies:
"Fifty Dollars."
The john replies:
"Fifty dollars are you nuts, that too damn much!"
"Well Honey," replies the hooker "see this diamond ring on my finger,
that what the last guy I gave a hand job to gave me."
The john agrees, and gets the best hand job he's ever hand.
The next day the john decides since the hand job was so good, he wants
to try a blow job.
Gets thru the tunnel finds the same hooker and asks for the price of a
Blow Job.
"One hundred dollars" replies the hooker.
"ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!! No way!" yells the john.
The hooker points over her shoulder at a mercedes benz, "That's what I
got for my last blow job"
The john agrees and gets the best damn blow job he's ever had.
Weekend goes by and the whole time the john can think of nothing except
the hooker and go the next step to get laid.
Monday he gets a pile of cash and goes looking for the hooker.
Finds the hooker and asks "Okay how much to get laid."
Hooker turns around points at an apartment building, "That's what I
would get for a lay if I had a pussy"
One day God came to Adam to pass on some news. "I've got some good news and
some bad news", God said. Adam looked at God and said, "Well, give me the good
news first." Smiling, God explained, "I've got two new organs for you.
One is called a brain. It will allow you to be very intelligent, create
new things, and have intelligent conversations with Eve. The other organ
I have for you is called a penis. It will allow you to reproduce your now
intelligent life form and populate this planet. Eve will be very happy
that you now have this organ to give her children."
Adam, very excited, exclaimed, "These are great gifts you have given to
me. What could possibly be bad news after such great tidings?" God looked
upon Adam and said with great sorrow, "The bad news is that when I created
you, I only gave you enough blood to operate one of these organs at a time."
Technical Terminology:
486................. The average IQ needed to understand a PC.
State-of-the-art.... Any computer you can't afford.
Obsolete............ Any computer you own.
Microsecond......... The time it takes for your State-of-the-art
computer to become obsolete.
Syntax Error....... "Hello, I want to buy a computer and money is
no object." (or: "Windows is superior because....")
GUI ("gooey")....... What your computer becomes after
spilling your coffee on it.
Computer Chip....... Any starchy foodstuff consumed in mass quantities
while programming.
Keyboard............ The standard way to generate computer errors.
Mouse............... An advanced input device to make computer errors
easier to generate.
Floppy.............. The state of your wallet after purchasing a
computer
Hard Drive.......... The sales technique employed by most computer
salesmen.
Portable Computer... A device invented to force businesspeople to
work at home, on vacation, and on business trips.
Disk Crash.......... A typical computer response to any critical
deadline.
Power User.......... Anyone who can format a disk from DOS.
System update....... A quick method of trashing all of your current
software.
You May Be an Engineer if...
If you introduce your wife as "mylady@home.wife"
If your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner
If you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie
If you want an 8X CDROM for Christmas
If Dilbert is your hero *** <----- ***
If you stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE
If you can name 6 Star Trek episodes
If the only jokes you receive are through e-mail
If your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50
If your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the
decimal point in the right place
If you look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys
If you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car
If you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than
hanging coats and taping ducts
If, at Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to
find the burnt-out bulb in the string
If you window shop at Radio Shack
If your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest
sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies
If you have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area
If you carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test
that actually takes five minutes to run
If you are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage door
opener and your camera's flash attachment
If you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is
If you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven
If you know the direction the water swirls when you flush
If you own "Official Star Trek" anything
If you have ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's
inside
If a team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the
antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception
If you ever burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project
If you are currently gathering the components to build your own
nuclear reactor
If you own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts
If you have never backed-up your hard drive
If you are aware that computers are actually only good for playing
games, but are afraid to say it out loud
If you truly believe aliens are living among us
If you have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance
If you have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as-is"
If you see a good design and still have to change it
If the salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions
If you still own a slide rule and you know how to work it
If the thought that a CD could refer to finance or music never enters
your mind
If you own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember
where they are
If you rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile
tires
If you have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you
own turns bread into charcoal
If you have more toys than your kids
If you need a checklist to turn on the TV
If you have introduced your kids by the wrong name
If you have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they
work
If your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight
If the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush
up to the front to fix it
If you can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary
If you have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel
and have seen most of the shows already
If you have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what
RPN stands for
If your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV
with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you grew
up thinking that was normal
If you know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size
screw driver to use
If you can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting
If people groan at the party when you pick out the music
If you can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this
week
If you did the sound system for your senior prom
If your checkbook always balances
If your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone
If you have more friends on the Internet than in real life
If you thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission
controllers
If you think that when people around you yawn, it's because they
didn't get enough sleep
If you spend more on your home computer than your car
If you know what http:/ stands for
If you've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio
If you have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your
garage
If your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to
explain atmospheric absorption theory
If your 4 basic food groups are: 1. Caffeine 2. Fat 3. Sugar 4.
Chocolate
from patrice:
Signs and notices written in English that were discovered throughout the
world....
In a Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the
chambermaid.
In a Paris hotel:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from Russian Orthodox monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and
Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except
Thursday.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
In a Bangkok dry cleaners:
Drop your trousers here for best results.
>From the Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Ar
s by 150,000 Soviet Republic
painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.
In a Zurich hotel:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite
sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
In a Czechoslovakin tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours; we guarantee no
miscarriages.
In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a
good time.
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?
In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a
man.
In a Tokyo bar:
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
In a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give
it to the guard on duty.
In the office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
>From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room,
please control yourself.
100 Ways to Confuse Your Roommate
1.Insist that you are a vegetarian and protest anytime your roommate
eats meat. Then leave "Slim Jim"
wrappers on the floor and lie on the bed holding your stomach
everytime your roommate walks in. If
he/she asks about the wrappers, say you know nothing about them.
2.Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate's head while he/she
is asleep. Keep a pair of scissors
by your bed. Snicker at your roommate every morning.
3.Every time your roommate walks in yell, "Hooray! You're back!" as
loud as you can and dance around
the room for five minutes. Afterwards, keep looking at your watch
and saying, "Shouldn't you be going
somewhere?"
4.Trash the room when your roommate's not around. Then leave and wait
for your roommate to come
back. When he/she does, walk in and act surprised. Say, "Uh-oh, it
looks like, THEY, were here
again."
5.Every time you see your roommate yell, "You son of a..." and kick
him/her in the stomach. Then buy
him/her some ice cream.
6.Set your roommate's bed on fire. Apologize and explain that you've
been watching too much "Beavis &
Butthead." Do it again. Tell him/her that you're not sorry because
this time, they deserved it.
7.Put your glasses on before you go to bed. Take them off as soon as
you wake up. If your roommate
asks, explain that they are Magic Dream Glasses. Complain that
you've been having terrible nightmares.
8.Eat lots of "Lucky Charms." Pick out all the yellow moons and
stockpile them in the closet. If your
roommate inquires, explain that visitors are coming, but you can't
say anything more, or you'll have to
face the consequences.
9.Set up meetings with your roommate's faculty advisor. Inquire about
his/her academic potential. Take
lots of notes, and then give your roommate a full report. Insist
that he/she do the same.
10."Drink" a raw egg for breakfast every morning. Explain that you are
in training. Eat a dozen donuts
every night.
11.Every Thursday, pack up everything you own and tell your roommate
you're going home. Come back
in an hour and explain that no one was home. Unpack everything and
go to sleep.
12.Every time you wake up, start yelling, "Oh, my God! Where the hell am
I?!" and run around the room
for a few minutes. Then go back to bed. If your roommate asks, say
you don't know what he/she is
talking about.
13.Draw a tiny, black spot on your arm. Make it bigger every day. Look
at it and say, "It's spreading, it's
spreading."
14.Buy a McDonald's "Happy Meal" for lunch every day. Eat the straw and
the napkin. Throw everything
else away.
15.Buy a plant. Sleep with it at night. Talk to it. After a few weeks,
start to argue with it loudly. Then yell,
"I can't live in the same room with you," storm out of the room and
slam the door. Get rid of the plant,
but keep the pot. Refuse to discuss the plant ever again.
16.Buy a Jack-In-The-Box. Every day, turn the handle until the clown
pops out. Scream continuously for
twenty minutes.
17.Hang up pictures of chickens all over the room. If your roommate eats
eggs, yell at him/her and call
him/her a cannibal.
18.Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing so,
look at your roommate and mutter,
"Soon, soon...."
19.Lock the door while your roommate is out. When he/she comes back and
tries to unlock it, yell, "Don't
come in, I'm naked!" Keep this up for several hours. When you
finally let your roommate in,
immediately take off all of your clothes, and ignore your roommate.
20.Bring in potential "new" roommates from around campus. Give them
tours of the room and the
building. Have them ask about your roommate in front of him/her, and
reply, "Oh, him/her? He/she
won't be here much longer."
21.If your roommate comes home after midnight, hit him/her on the head
with a rolling pin. Immediately go
to bed, muttering, "Ungrateful little..."
22.Pile dirty dishes in your roommate's bed. Insist that you don't know
how they got there.
23.Collect hundreds of pens and pile them on one side of the room. Keep
one pencil on the other side of the
room. Laugh at the pencil.
24.Feign a serious illness for two weeks. Have a priest come to your
room and visit you. Write out a will,
leaving everything to your roommate. One day, miraculously
"recover." Insist that your roommate write
out a will, leaving everything to you. Every time he/she coughs,
excitedly say, "Oooh, are you dying?"
25.Live in the hallway for a month. Afterwards, bring all of your stuff
back into the room and tell your
roommate, "Okay, your turn."
26.Keep a tarantula in a jar for three days. Then get rid of the
tarantula. If your roommate asks, say, "Oh,
he's around here somewhere."
27.Tell your roommate, "I've got an important message for you." Then
pretend to faint. When you recover,
say you can't remember what the message was. Later on, say, "Oh,
yeah, I remember!" Pretend to faint
again. Keep this up for several weeks.
28.Bowl inside the room. Set up tournaments with other people in the
building. Award someone a trophy.
If your roommate wants to bowl too, explain that he/she needs
bowling shoes.
29.Walk backwards all the time. Then pretend to trip and hurt yourself.
Fake an injury and go through a
long, painful recovery. Start walking backwards again.
30.While your roommate is out, glue your shoes to the ceiling. When your
roommate walks in, sit on the
floor, hold your head, and moan.
31.Explain to your roommate that you're going to be housing a
prospective student in the near future. One
day, bring in a pig. If your roommate protests, hug the pig and tell
your roommate that he/she hurt its
feelings. Watch T.V with the pig, eating lots of bacon.
32.Make a sandwich. Don't eat it, leave it on the floor. Ignore the
sandwich. Wait until your roommate gets
rid of it, and then say, "Hey, where the hell is my sandwich!?"
Complain loudly that you are hungry.
33.Punch a hole in the T.V. Sit and watch it anyway, complaining about
the poor picture quality.
34.Wear a cape. Stand in front of an open window for about an hour every
day. Then, one day, when your
roommate is gone, go outside and lie down underneath the window,
pretending to be hurt, and wait for
your roommate to return. The next day, start standing in front of
the window again.
35.Collect potatoes. Paint faces on them and give them names. Name one
after your roommate. Separate
your roommate's potato from the others. Wait a few days, and then
bake your roommate's potato and
eat it. Explain to your roommate, "He just didn't belong."
36.Fill an empty shaving cream can with whipped cream. Use it to shave,
and then spray some into your
mouth. Later on, complain that you feel sick. Continue this process
for several weeks.
37.Cover your bed with a tent. Live inside it for a week. If your
roommate asks, explain that "It's a jungle
out there." Get your roommate to bring you food and water.
38.Keep a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the room. Look at it with fear
for a few days. Then stay out of
the room entirely, opening the door only a crack and whispering to
your roommate, "Psst! Is it gone?"
39.Break the window with a rock. If your roommate protests, explain that
you were hot. Open and close
the broken window as you normally would.
40.Throw darts at a bare wall. All of a sudden, act excited, telling
your roommate that you hit the bull's
eye.
41.Send flowers to your roommate, with a card that says, "I'm sorry. It
won't happen again." When you
see them, start ripping up the flowers. Repeat the process for a few
weeks.
42.Call your roommate "Clyde" by accident. Start doing so every so
often. Increase the frequency over the
next few weeks, until you are calling him "Clyde" all the time. If
your roommate protests, say, "I'm
sorry. I won't do that anymore, Murray."
43.Hire a night watchman to guard the room while you are sleeping.
44.Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if he
knows how much an elephant
weighs, and look at the floor on the empty side of the room with concern.
45.Practice needlepoint every night. At one point, grab your thumb and
scream,
"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Cry hysterically for a few minutes, and
then go to bed. Sob
and sniff all night.
46.When your roommate comes in, pretend that you are on the phone,
screaming angrily and shouting
obscenities. After you hang up, say, "That was your mom. She said
she'd call back."
47.Every time your roommate comes in, immediately turn off the lights
and go to bed. When he/she leaves,
get up and loudly yell, "Okay, guys, you can come out now."
48.Start wearing a crown, all the time. If your roommate tells you to
take it off, say, "What the hell do you
think you are? A king?"
49.Sit in front of a chess board for hours, saying nothing, doing
nothing. Then, look up and say, "I think
this game goes a lot faster with two players."
50.Talk back to your "Rice Krispies." All of a sudden, act offended,
throw the bowl on the floor and kick
it. Refuse to clean it up, explaining, "No, I want to watch them
suffer."
51.Change the locks on the door. Don't let your roommate in unless
he/she says the secret word. Change
the secret word often. If your roommate can't guess the secret word,
make him/her pay a tithe.
52.Scatter stuffed animals around the room. Put party hats on them. Play
loud music. When your roommate
walks in, turn off the music, take off the party hats, put away the
stuffed animals, and say, "Well, it was
fun while it lasted."
53.Hang a tire swing from the ceiling. Act like a monkey. If someone
besides your roommate comes in,
cease acting like a monkey and claim that the tire swing was your
roommate's idea. When you and your
roommate are alone again, continue acting like a monkey.
54.Unplug everything in the room except for one toaster. Pray to the
toaster. Bring it gifts. Throw some of
your roommate's possessions out the window. Say that the toaster
made you do it.
55.Challenge your roommate to a duel. If he refuses, claim that you have
won by forfeit and therefore
conquered his side of the room. Insist that he remove all of his
possessionsimmediately.
56.Sign your roommate up for various activities. (Campus tour guide,
blood donor, organ donor).
57.Start dressing like an Indian. If your roommate inquires, claim that
you are getting in touch with your
Native-American roots. If your roommate accuses you of not having
any Native-American roots, claim
that he/she has offended your people and put a curse on your roommate.
58.Wear your shoes on the wrong feet, all the time. Constantly complain
that your feet hurt.
59.Hit your roommate on the head with a brick. Claim that you were
trying to kill a mosquito.
60.Steal something valuable of your roommate's. If he/she asks about it,
tell him/her that you traded it for
some magic beans. Give some beans to your roommate.
61.Instead of turning off the light switch, smash the light bulb with a
hammer. Put a new bulb in the next
day. Complain often about the cost of light bulbs.
62.Videotape yourself hammering a nail into a wall for a while, and then
stopping. Play the tape in your
room. Right before the hammering stops on the videotape, look at the
screen and say, "Don't do that."
63.Buy a lamp. Tell your roommate it's a magic lamp, with a genie inside
it. Spend a week thinking about
what to wish for. At the end of the week, report that someone has
released the genie from the lamp.
Blame your roommate.
64.Whenever your roommate brushes his/her teeth, watch him/her do so.
Take notes. Write a paper on it,
and circulate it around campus. If your roommate protests, say, "The
people have a right to know!"
65.Collect potato chips that you think look like famous people. Find one
that looks like your roommate.
Burn it, and explain, "It had to be done."
66.Read the phone book out loud and excitedly. ("Frank Johnson! Oh, wow!
837-9494! Holy cow!")
67.Shadow box several times a day. One day, walk in looking depressed.
If your roommate asks what's
wrong, explain that your shadow can't box with you anymore due to an
injury. Ask your roommate if
you can box with his/her shadow.
68.When you walk into the room, look at your roommate in disgust and
yell, "Oh, you're here!" Walk
away yelling and cursing.
69.Put up flyers around the building, reporting that your roommate is
missing. Offer a reward for his/her
safe return.
70.Buy a watermelon. Draw a face on it and give it a name. Ask your
roommate if the watermelon can sleep
in his/her bed. If your roommate says no, drop the watermelon out
the window. Make it look like a
suicide. Say nasty things about your roommate at the funeral.
71.Draw a chalk outline on the floor. When your roommate comes in, say,
"Don't worry. It's not what you
think." If he/she asks about it again, immediately change the subject.
72.Drink a cup of coffee every morning. When you finish it, gnaw on the
mug for about ten minutes. Then,
look at your roommate, immediately put the mug away, and quickly
leave the room.
73.Paint a tunnel on the wall like they do in cartoons. Every day, hit
your head as you attempt to crawl
through it. Hold your head and grumble, "Damn road runner...."
74.Leave memos on your roommate's bed that say things like, "I know what
you did," and "Don't think
you can fool me." Sign them in blood.
75.Hold a raffle, offering your roommate as first prize. If he/she
protests, tell him/her that it's all for
charity.
76.Make cue cards for your roommate. Get them out whenever you'd like to
have a conversation.
77.Talk like a pirate, all the time. Threaten to make your roommate walk
the plank if he/she doesn't swab
the deck. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!
78.Set up about twenty plants in an organized formation. When your
roommate walks in, pretend to be in
the middle of delivering a speech to the plants. Whisper to them,
"We'll continue this later," while
eyeing your roommate suspiciously.
79.Buy a telescope. Sit on your bed and look across the room at your
roommate through the telescope.
When you're not using the telescope, act like your roommate is too
far away for you to see.
80.Keep some worms in a shoebox. When doing homework, go and consult
with the worms every so
often. Then become angry, shouting at the worms that they're stupid
and they don't know what they're
talking about.
81.Watch "Psycho" every day for a month. Then act excited every time
your roommate goes to take a
shower.
82.Wear a paper hat. Every time your roommate walks in, say, "Welcome to
McDonalds, can I take your...
Oh, it's just you." Take off the hat, sit, and pout.
83.Go through your roommate's textbooks with a red pen, changing things
and making random
corrections. If your roommate protests, tell him/her that you just
couldn't take it anymore.
84.Leave the room at random, knock on the door, and wait for your
roommate to let you back in. If he/she
asks about it, go on a tangent about the importance of good manners.
85.Hang a horseshoe above the door. Make up stories about having had
good luck. Then, take the
horseshoe down and wrap your head in bandages. When you see your
roommate, look above the door
where the horseshoe used to be, hold your head, and mutter, "Stupid
horseshoe...."
86.Carve a jack-o-lantern. Complain to your roommate that the
jack-o-lantern has been staring at you. The
next day, tell your roommate that the jack-o-lantern thinks he/she
has been staring at it. Confide in your
roommate that you really don't like the jack-o-lantern, but you
can't convince it to move out.
87.As soon as your roommate turns the light off at night, begin singing
famous operas as loud as you can.
When your roommate turns on the light, look around and pretend to be
confused.
88.Hang a basketball net on the wall. Challenge your refrigerator to
basketball games, and play them in
front of your roommate. Do so for about a month. Confide in your
roommate that you think the
refrigerator has been taking steroids.
89.Drink lots of lemonade. Talk obnoxiously for hours about how much you
love lemonade. Then, one
day, paint your face yellow. From then on, complain about how much
you hate lemonade.
90.Late at night, start conversations that begin with, "Remember the
good old days, when we used to..."
and make up stories involving you and your roommate.
91.Whenever your roommate sneezes, go and hide in the closet for about
and hour. Look around nervously
for the rest of the day.
92.Sit and stare at your roommate for hours. Bring others in to join
you. Eat peanuts, throwing a few at
your roommate. Then say, "Boy, these zoos just aren't what they used
to be."
93.Tell your roommate that your toe hurts, and that means there's going
to be an earthquake, soon. While
your roommate is out, trash everything on his/her side of the room.
When he/she returns, explain that
the earthquake hit, but only on one side of the room.
94.Buy a gun. Clean it every day. One day, put a band-aid on your
forehead, and refuse to discuss the gun
ever again.
95.Buy a lobster. Pretend to play cards with it. Complain to your
roommate that the lobster is making up
his own rules.
96.Make pancakes every morning, but don't eat them. Draw faces on them,
and toss them in the closet.
Watch them for several hours each day. Complain to your roommate
that your "pancake farm" isn't
evolving into a self-sufficient community. Confide in your roommate
that you think the king of the
pancakes has been taking bribes.
97.While you are ironing, pretend to burn yourself. Start a garbage can
fire in the middle of the room. Toss
the iron inside. If your roommate objects, explain that you are just
trying to get even.
98.Buy some turtles. Paint numbers on their backs. Race them down the hall.
99.Create an army of animal crackers. Put them through basic training.
Set up little checkpoints around the
room. Tell your roommate that the camel spotted him/her in a
restricted area and said not to do it again.
Ask your roommate to apologize to the camel.
100.Put out a plate of cookies at night. Tell your roommate that they're
for the Sandman. Take a bite out of
one of the cookies while your roommate is asleep. The next morning,
accuse your roommate of having
bitten one of the cookies. If he/she tries to tell you the Sandman
did it, insist that you know what the
Sandman's teeth marks look like and that those are, in fact, not the
Sandman's teeth marks. Grumble
angrily and storm out of the room.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a
chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross
the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the
strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue?
In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
pancreas.
Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find
out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would
let it take.
Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes
also across you.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its
sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a
fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while
believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated
that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture,
and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into
being.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the
chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the
objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came
into being which caused the actualization of this
potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed
the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Buddha: If you meet the chicken on the road, kill it.
Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo
sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.
Salvador Dali: The Fish.
Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus: For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann Friedrich von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was
on, but it was moving very fast.
David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored)
reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out
of life.
Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Molly Yard: It was a hen!
Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
Other: It was too far to walk around!
Texan: To prove to the armadillio that it could be done.
: During the final days at Denver's old Stapleton airport, a crowded
: United flight was canceled.
:
: A single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced
: travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk.
: He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on
: this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS."
:
: The agent replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help
: you, but I've got to help these folks first, and I'm sure we'll be
: able to work something out."
:
: The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the
: passengers behind him could hear, "Do you have any idea who I am?"
:
: Without hesitating, the gate agent smiled and grabbed her public
: address microphone. "May I have your attention please?" she began,
: her voice bellowing throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger
: here at the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help
: him find his identity, please come to the gate."
:
: With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man
: glared at the United agent, gritted his teeth and swore "(Expletive)
: you."
:
: Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll
: have to stand in line for that, too."
:
: The man retreated as the people in the terminal applauded loudly.
: Although the flight was canceled and people were late, they were no
: longer angry at United.
Courtesy of Michelle. :-)
#Subject: Woman-speak! (fwd)
#
# Womanspeak <=> English
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# * You want <=> You want
# * We need <=> I want
# * It's your decision <=> The correct decision should be
# obvious by now
# * Do what you want <=> You'll pay for this later
# * We need to talk <=> I need to complain
# * Sure... go ahead <=> I don't want you to.
# * I'm hungry <=> (a) Make me something to eat.
# (b) Stop what you are doing, and go
# get me something to eat - I don't
# care if what you are doing
# is important.
# * I'm not upset <=> Of course I'm upset,you moron.
# * You're ... so manly <=> You need a shave and you sweat a lot.
# * You're certainly <=> Is sex all you ever think about?
# attentive tonight.
# * I'm not emotional! <=> I'm on my period.
# And I'm not overreacting!
#
# * Be romantic, turn <=> I have flabby thighs.
# out the lights.
# * This kitchen is so <=> I want a new house.
# inconvenient
# * The car is empty <=> Go fill it up
# * The trash is full <=> Take it out
# * The dog is barking <=> Go outside in your underwear and see
# what is wrong
# * I want new curtains <=> and carpeting, and furniture, and
# wallpaper.....
# * I need wedding shoes <=> the other 40 pairs are the wrong shade
# of white
# * Hang the picture there<=> NO, I mean hang it there!
# * I heard a noise <=> I noticed you were almost asleep.
# * Do you love me? <=> I'm going to ask for something
# expensive.
# * How much do you love <=> I did something today you're really
# me not going to like.
# * I'll be ready in <=> Kick off your shoes and find a good
# a minute. game on T.V.
# * Is my butt fat? <=> Tell me I'm beautiful.
# * You have to learn <=> Just agree with me.
# to communicate.
# * It's all right, dear. <=> You'll pay for this.
# * Yes <=> No
# * No <=> No
# * Maybe <=> No
# * I'm sorry. <=> You'll be sorry.
# * Do you like this <=> It's easy to fix,
# recipe? so you'd better get use to it.
# * Was that the baby ? <=> Why don't you get out of bed and
# walk him until he goes to sleep.
# * I'm not yelling ! <=> Yes I am yelling because
# I think this is important.
#
#
# ------------* in answer to "What's wrong ? *---------------
# --The same old thing. <=> Nothing.
# --Nothing. <=> Everything.
# --Everything. <=> My PMS is acting up.
# --Nothing, really. <=> It's just that you're such an
# asshole.
# --I don't want to <=> Go away, I'm still building
# talk about it. up steam.
#
# --What makes you <=> I'm going to kill you.
# think there is
# something wrong?
Signs Your Spouse Is Having An Affair By Computer" As presented on the 02/02/96 broadcast of LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN 10. Lately she sits at the computer naked 9. After signing off, he always has a cigarette 8. The giant rubber inflatable disk dive 7. In the morning, the computer screen is all fogged up 6. He's gotten amazingly good at typing with one hand 5. She makes sarcastic remarks about your "software" 4. Lipstick on the mouse 3. During sex, she screams "A colon backslash enter insert!" 2. The jam in the laser printer is a pair of underpants 1. The fax file is filled with pictures of some guy's ass
What if people bought cars like they buy computers?
General Motors doesn't have a "help line" for people who don't know how to
drive, because people don't buy cars like they buy computers. But imagine
if they did...
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HELPLINE: "General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?"
CUSTOMER: "I got in my car and closed the door and nothing happened!"
HELPLINE: "Did you put the key in the ignition and turn it?"
CUSTOMER: "What's an ignition?"
HELPLINE: "It's a starter motor that draws current from your battery and
turns over the engine."
CUSTOMER: "Ignition? Motor? Battery? Engine? How come I have to know all
of these technical terms just to use my car?"
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HELPLINE: "General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?"
CUSTOMER: "My car ran fine for a week, and now it won't go anywhere!"
HELPLINE: "Is the gas tank empty?"
CUSTOMER: "Huh? How do I know?"
HELPLINE: "There's a little gauge on the front panel, with a needle, and
markings from 'E' to 'F'. Where is the needle pointing?"
CUSTOMER: "I see an 'E' but no 'F'."
HELPLINE: "You see the 'E' and just to the right is the 'F'.
CUSTOMER: "No, just to the right of the first 'E' is a 'V'.
HELPLINE: "A 'V'?!?"
CUSTOMER: "Followed by 'R', 'O', 'L' ..."
HELPLINE: "No, no, no sir! That's the front of the car. When you sit
behind
the steering wheel, that's the panel I'm talking about."
CUSTOMER: "That steering wheel thingy - Is that the round thing that
honks
the horn?"
HELPLINE: "Yes, among other things."
CUSTOMER: "The needle's pointing to 'E'. What does that mean?"
HELPLINE: "It means that you have to visit a gasoline vendor and purchase
some more gasoline. You can install it yourself, or pay the
vendor to install it for you."
CUSTOMER: "What? I paid $18,000 for this car! Now you tell me that I have
to keep buying more components? I want a car that comes with
everything built in!"
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HELPLINE: "General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?"
CUSTOMER: "Your cars suck!"
HELPLINE: "What's wrong?"
CUSTOMER: "It crashed, that's what went wrong!"
HELPLINE: "What were you doing?"
CUSTOMER: "I wanted to go faster, so I pushed the accelerator pedal all
the
way to the floor. It worked for a while, and then it crashed -
and now it won't even start up!"
HELPLINE: "I'm sorry, sir, but it's your responsibility if you misuse the
product."
CUSTOMER: "Misuse it? I was just following this damned manual of yours.
It
said to make the car go to put the transmission in 'D' and
press
the accelerator pedal. That's exactly what I did - now the damn
thing's crashed."
HELPLINE: "Did you read the entire operator's manual before operating the
car sir?"
CUSTOMER: "What? Of course I did! I told you I did EVERYTHING the manual
said and it didn't work!"
HELPLINE: "Didn't you attempt to slow down so you wouldn't crash?"
CUSTOMER: "How do you do THAT?"
HELPLINE: "You said you read the entire manual, sir. It's on page 14. The
pedal next to the accelerator."
CUSTOMER: "Well, I don't have all day to sit around and read this manual
you know."
HELPLINE: "Of course not. What do you expect us to do about it?"
CUSTOMER: "I want you to send me one of the latest versions that goes
fast
and won't crash anymore!"
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***
HELPLINE: "General Motors Helpline, how can I help you?"
CUSTOMER: "Hi! I just bought my first car, and I chose your car because
it
has automatic transmission, cruise control, power steering,
power brakes, and power door locks."
"How do I work it?"
HELPLINE: "Do you know how to drive?"
CUSTOMER: "Do I know how to what?"
HELPLINE: "Do you know how to DRIVE?"
CUSTOMER: "I'm not a technical person! I just want to go places in my
car!"
From: "Kendra Frederich" (KFREDERI@us.oracle.com) Subject: Fwd: long computer joke Date: 2 Jan 96 >50 Ways to Scare People In the Computer Room > >1. Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look >on your face and scream "Oh my God! They've >found me!" and bolt. > >2. Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes & >then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at >everyone who looks at you. > >3. When your computer is turned off, complain >to the monitor on duty that you can't get the >damn thing to work. After he/she's turned it on, >wait 5 minutes,turn it off again, & repeat the >process for a good half hour. > >4. Type frantically, often stopping to look at the >person next to you evilly. > >5. Before anyone else is in the lab, connect >each computer to different screen than the one >it's set up with. > >6. Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" >theme song and play it at the highest volume >possible over & over again. > >7. Work normally for a while. Suddenly look >amazingly startled by something on the screen >and crawl underneath the desk. > >8. Ask the person next to you if they know how >to tap into top-secret Pentagon files. > >9. Use Interactive Send to make passes at >people you don't know. > >10. Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer >before you turn it on. > >11. Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone >asks why you have it, say "Just in case..." >mysteriously. > >12. Type on VAX for a while. Suddenly start >cursing for 3 minutes at everything bad about >your life. Then stop and continue typing. > >13. Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at >other people as if they're crazy while typing. > >14. Light candles in a pentagram around your >terminal before starting. > >15. Ask around for a spare disk. Offer $2. >Keep asking until someone agrees. Then, pull a >disk out of your fly and say, "Oops, I forgot." > >16. Every time you press Return and there is >processing time required, pray >"Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and >scream "YES!" when it finishes. > >17. "DISK FIGHT!!!" > >18. Start making out with the person at the >terminal next to you (It helps if you know them, >but this is also a great way to make new >friends). > >19. Put a straw in your mouth and put your >hands in your pockets. type by hitting the keys >with the straw. > >20. If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin >around singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" >whenever there is processing time required. > >21. Draw a pictue of a woman (or man) on a >piece of paper, tape it to your monitor. Try to >seduce it. Act like it hates you and then >complain loudly that women (men) are worthless. > >22. Try to stick a Ninetendo cartridge into the 3 >1/2 disc drive, when it doesn't work, get the >supervisor. > >23. When you are on an IBM, and when you >turn it on, ask loudly where the smiling Apple >face is when you turn on one of those. > >24. Print out the complete works of >Shakespeare, then when its all done (two days >later) say that all you wanted was one line. > >25. Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails >noisely. After doing this for a while, spit them >out at the feet of the person next to you. > >26. Stare at the screen, grind your teeth, stop, >look at the person next to grinding. Repeat >procedure, making sure you never provoke the >person enough to let them blow up, as this >releases tension, and it is far more effective to >let them linger. > >27. If you have long hair, take a typing break, >look for split ends, cut them and deposit them on >your neighbor's keyboard as you leave. > >28. Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the >British Royal Family on your desk and loudly >proclaim that it inspires you. > >29. Come to the lab wearing several layers of >socks. Remove shoes and place them of top of >the monitor. Remove socks layer by layer and >drape them around the monitor. Exclaim sudden >haiku about the aesthetic beauty of cotton on >plastic. > >30. Take the keyboard and sit under the >computer. Type up your paper like this. Then >go to the lab supervisor and complain about the >bad working conditions. > >31. Laugh hysterically, shout "You will all perish >in flames!!!" and continue working. > >32. Bring some dry ice & make it look like your >computer is smoking. > >33. Assign a musical note to every key (ie. the >Delete key is A Flat, the B key is F sharp, etc.). >Whenever you hit a key, hum its note loudly. >Write an entire paper this way. > >34. Attempt to eat your computer's mouse. > >35. Borrow someone else's keyboard by >reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I >borrow this for a sec?", unplugging the >keyboard & taking it. > >36. Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun. > >37. When doing calculations, pull out an >abacus and say that sometimes the old ways are >best. > >38. Play Pong for hours on the most powerful >computer in the lab. > >39. Make a loud noise of hitting the same key >over and over again until you see that your >neighbor is noticing (You can hit the space bar >so your fill isn't affected). Then look at your >neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her delete key >several times, erasing an entire word. While >you do this, ask: "Does *your* delete key >work?" Shake your head, and resume hitting >the space bar on your keyboard. Keep doing >this until you've deleted about a page of your >neighbor's document. Then, suddenly exclaim: >"Well, whaddya know? I've been hitting the >space bar this whole time. No wonder it wasn't >deleting! Ha!" Print out your document and >leave. > >40. Remove your disk from the drive and hide >it. Go to the lab monitor and complain that your >computer ate your disk. (For special effects, >put some Elmer's Glue on or around the disk >drive. Claim that the computer is drooling.) > >41. Stare at the person's next to your's screen, >look really puzzled, burst out laughing, and say >"You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing, grab >your stuff and leave, howling as you go. > >42. Point at the screen. Chant in a made up >language while making elaborate hand gestures >for a minute or two. Press return or the use, >then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRRR!" >peek up from under the table, walk back to the >computer and say. "Oh, good. It worked this >time," and calmly start to type again. > >43. Keep looking at invisible bugs and trying to >swat them. > >44. See who's online. Send a total stranger a >talk request. Talk to them like you've known >them all your lives. Hangup before they geta >chance to figure out you're a total stranger. > >45. Bring an small tape player with a tape of >really absurd sound effects. Pretend it's the >computer and look really lost. > >46. Pull out a pencil. Start writing on the >screen. Complain that the lead doesn't work. > >47. Come into the computer lab wearing several >endangered species of flowers in your hair. >Smile incessantly. Type a sentence, then laugh >happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!!", and >kiss the screen. Repeat this after every >sentence. As your ecstasy mounts, also hug >the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor, then >the computer assistant, and walk out. > >48. Run into the computer lab, shout >"Armageddon is here!!!!!", then calmly sit down >and begin to type. > >49. Quietly walk into the computer lab with a >Black and Decker chainsaw, rev that baby up, >and then walk up to the nearest person and say >"Give me that computer or you'll be feeding my >pet crocodile for the next week". > >50. Two words: Tesla Coil.
courtesy of michelle
The Real version of the popular Christmas Song
December 14th
Dearest John:
I went to the door today and the postman delivered a partridge in a pear tree. What a delightful gift. I couldn't have been more surprised.
With dearest love and affection, Agnes
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December 15th
Dearest John:
Today the postman brought your very sweet gift. Just imagine, two turtle doves.... I'm just delighted at your very thoughtful gift.
They are just adorable.
All my love, Agnes
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December 16th
Dear John:
Oh, aren't you the extravagant one! Now I must protest. I don't deserve such generosity. Three french hens. They are just darling but I must insist.... you're just too kind.
Love Agnes
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December 17th
Today the postman delivered four calling birds. Now really! They are beautiful, but don't you think enough is enough? You're being too romantic.
Affectionately, Agnes
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December 18th
Dearest John:
What a surprise! Today the postman delivered five golden rings. One for each finger. You're just impossible, but I love it. Frankly, John, all those squawking birds were beginning to get on my nerves.
All my love, Agnes
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December 19th
Dear John:
When I opened the door there were actually six geese a-laying on my front steps. So you're back to the birds again, huh? Those geese are huge. Where will I ever keep them? The neighbors are complaining and I can't sleep through the racket. PLEASE STOP!
Cordially, Agnes
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December 20th
John:
What's with you and those fucking birds???? Seven swans a-swimming.
What kind of goddam joke is this? There's bird shit all over the
house and they never stop the racket. I'm a nervous wreck and I can't
sleep all night.
IT'S NOT FUNNY.......So stop with those fucking birds.
Sincerely, Agnes
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December 21st
OK Buster:
I think I prefer the birds. What the hell am I going to do with eight maids a-milking? It's not enough with all those birds and eight maids a-milking, but they had to bring their own goddam cows. There is shit all over the lawn and I can't move into my own house. Just lay off me. SMART ASS.
Ag
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December 22nd
Hey Shithead:
What are you? Some kind of sadist? Now there's nine pipers piping. And Christ - do they pipe. They never stopped chasing those maids since they got here yesterday morning. The cows are upset are stepping all over those screeching birds. No wonder they screeh. What am I going to do? The neighbors have started a petetion to evict me. You'll get yours.
From Ag
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December 23rd
You Rotten Prick:
Now there's ten ladies dancing - I don't know why I call those sluts ladies. They've been balling those nine pipers all night long. Now the cows can't sleep and they've got diarrhea. My living room is a river of shit. The commisioner of buildings has subpoenaed me to give cause why the building shouldn't be condemned. I'm sicking the police on you.
One who means it, Ag
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December 24th
Listen Fuckhead:
What's with the eleven lords a-leaping on those maids and aforementioned "ladies"? Some of those broads will never walk again. Those pipers ran through the maids and have been commiting sodomy with the cows. All 234 of the birds are dead. They have been trampled to death in the orgy. I hope you're satisfied, you rotten swine.
Your sworn enemy, Miss Agnes McCallister
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December 25th (From the law offices Taeker, Spredar, and Baegar)
Dear Sir:
This is to acknowledge your latest gift of tweleve drummers drumming, which you have seen fit to inflict on our client, Miss Agnes McCallister. The destruction, of course, was total. All correspondence should come to our attention. If you should attempt to reach Miss McCallister at Happy-Dale Sanitarium, the attendants have instructions to shoot you on sight. With this letter, please find attached a warrant for your arrest.
Taeker, Spredar, and Baegar
Attorneys at Law
Once there was a man named Puck Dahmer, who made his living as a bicycle messenger. He had a good career when he was young, because he was smart and fast. Over the years however, his career began to wither dry, for he became old and slow. As a result, he became ever more depressed and violent -- and all because he never got what he wanted from Santa.
One Christmas Eve Puck had a little too much eggnog. He made a batch of marijuana brownies and filled a glass with some milk laced with Everclear. Then he set a trap for Santa by setting the food out to eat. Cackling evilly to himself, he went to bed. Later that night, Santa came down the chimney, ate the brownies, drank the milk, danced with the Christmas tree and passed out. When Puck woke up, he found Santa sitting on top of the Christmas tree with a bow on his head and explaining to a light fixture, in a slightly slurred voice, why he felt trapped by his marriage. Puck smiled to himself and proceeded with the second part of his plan -- to take the fat man prisoner as revenge for all the presents he had never received. After Puck got Santa off the tree and tied to a chair (which took a while, since Puck never suspected that Santa had a boot knife or that he would be such a good fighter with it, even drunk), Santa screamed, "How dare you offend the Mighty Thor!! I will smite you for your blasphemy!!!" He began waving his one free arm around in circles, pretending he had a mighty hammer and making smiting noises with his mouth. After his shoulder began to cramp up, he calmed down a bit.
Puck took the opportunity to ask him, "Santa, why didn't you ever bring me what I wanted for Christmas? I asked for a moped because I was tired of pedaling all over the freakin' city! All you ever gave me was a bunch of rock-hard fruitcakes and, finally, a pony! Well, I wouldn't have minded the pony, except IT WAS FREAKIN' DEAD!!"
Santa screamed, "Well, bite me!! The pony was FINE until I tried to wrap it... How the heck was I supposed to know that it couldn't breathe through the paper!?"
Puck screamed back, "SHUT UP, FAT MAN! FORGET ABOUT THE PONY, HOW COME YOU NEVER GOT ME THE MOPED!?? "
"Listen, you little smegger," said Santa. "You never got the moped because we don't handle ANYTHING mechanical, so STUFF THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!!"
"Why the heck not?! Why don't you handle anything mechanical! I WANT THE TRUTH OUT OF YOU, YOU FAT COMMIE," demanded Puck.
"THE TRUTH!? YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" screamed Santa. "Besides, it's classified." With this, Santa reached into a hidden pocket and yanked out a live grenade.
"HO, HO, HO, HERE WE GO," screamed Santa, who then stuffed the grenade into his mouth and pulled the pin.
From that tragic day forward, the parents of young children have had to spend massive amounts of money on Christmas presents. All good parents curse the name of Santa every time they are forced to fork out for a stupid Cabbage Patch doll.
On a side note, the widowed Mrs. Claus and the seven hundred orphaned elves tried to continue life at the North pole. Unfortunately, one day Mrs. Claus wandered off in a snowstorm, never to be seen again. The elves tried bravely to continue as before, although after they had eaten all the reindeer they were forced to begin feeding on the weak among themselves. They became a group of nomadic barbarians, and eventually wandered down to Montana, where they took up residence in a large oak tree. They formed the tribe of Keebler, and produced cookies, chips, and snack foods forever after.
Little Johnny was sitting in class doing math problems when his teacher
picked him to answer a question.
Johnny, if there were five birds sitting on a fence and you shot one with your gun how many would be left? None replied Johnny, cause the rest would fly away.
Well, the answer is four said the teacher, but I like the way you are thinking.
Little Johnny says, I have a question for you now. If there were three women eating ice cream cones in a shop, one was licking her cone, the second was biting the cone and the third was sucking the cone, which one is married?
Well said the teacher nervously, I guess the one sucking the cone?
No, said Little Johnny, the one with the wedding ring on her finger, but I like the way you are thinking.
For their first date, Bob took Sally to an expensive restaurant, insisting: "Order whatever you like."
Sally obeyed, downing shrimp cocktail, lobster, two helpings of filet mignon, chicken Kiev, a bottle of Dom Perignon and an entire chocolate mousse covered with ice cream.
"Whoa!" Bob marveled. "Does your mother feed you like that?"
"No," Sally shot back, "but my mother's not trying to fuck me either."
Vera consulted a fortune-teller.
The Gypsy gazed into her crystal ball and proclaimed:
"Your husband is going to die soon!"
"I know that!" Vera whined. "What I want to know is if I'm going to jail!"
It was Friday, and four nuns went to the priest at the local Catholic
church to ask for the weekend off. They argued back and forth for a few
minutes. Finally the priest agreed to let them leave the convent for
the weekend. "However", he said, "as soon as you get back Monday
morning I want you to confess to me what you did over the weekend." The
four nuns agree, and run off.
Monday comes, and the four nuns return. The first nun goes to the priest and says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." The priest asks, "What did you do, Sister?" She replies, "I watched an R-rated movie." The priest looks up at heaven for a few seconds, then replies, "You are forgiven. Go and drink the holy water." The first nun leaves, and the fourth nun begins to chuckle quietly under her breath.
The second nun then goes up to the priest and says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." The priest replies, "OK, what happened?" She says, "I was driving my brother's car down the street in front of his house, and I hit a neighbors dog and killed it." The priest looks up to heaven for half a minute, then says, "You are forgiven. Go and drink the holy water." The second nun goes out. By this time, the fourth nun is laughing quite audibly.
Then the third nun walks to the priest and says, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." The priest asks, "Out with it. What did you do?" She says, "Last night, I ran naked up and down Main Street." The priest looks up at heaven for a full five minutes before responding, "God forgives you. Go and drink the holy water." She leaves.
The fourth nun falls on the floor, laughing so hard tears run down her cheeks. The priest asks her, "OK. What did you do that was so darn funny?" The fourth nun replies, "I peed in the holy water..."
In the beginning there was the computer. And God said
%Let there be light!
#Enter user id.
%God
#Enter password.
%Omniscient
#Password incorrect. Try again.
%Omnipotent
#Password incorrect. Try again.
%Technocrat
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
%Let there be light!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
%Create light
--More--
#Done
%Run heaven and earth
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
#Approx. funds remaining: $92.50.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
%Let there be firmament in the midst of water and light
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
%Create firmament
#Done.
%Run firmament
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
#Approx. funds remaining: $84.60.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
%Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and
#Too many characters in specification string. Try again.
%Create dry_land
#Done.
%Run firmament
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
#Approx. funds remaining: $65.00.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
%Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night
#Unspecified type. Try again.
%Create sun_moon_stars
#Done
%Run sun_moon_stars
#And God created the heavens. And God saw there were 0 errors.
--More--
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
#Approx. funds remaining: $54.00.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
%Create fish
#Done
%Create fowl
#Done
%Run fish, fowl
#And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that
creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every winged fowl
after its kind. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
#Approx. funds remaining: $45.00.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Friday, March 6.
%Create cattle
#Done
%Create creepy_things
#Done
%Now let us make man in our image
#Unspecified type. Try again.
--More--
%Create man
#Done
%Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth
#Too many command operands. Try again.
%Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
%Insert breath
#Done
--More--
%Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 5 errors.
%Move man to Garden of Eden
#File Garden of Eden does not exist.
%Create Garden.edn
#Done
%Move man to Garden.edn
#Done
%Run multiplication
--More--
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
%Copy woman from man
#Done
%Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 3 errors.
%Insert woman into man
#Illegal parameters. Try again.
%Insert man into woman
#Done
--More--
%Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 2 errors.
%Create desire
#Done
%Run multiplication
#And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
%Create freewill
#Done
%Run freewill
--More--
#And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
%Undo desire
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
%Destroy freewill
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
%Help
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
--More--
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The record shows that George Dale Mirical and Mary Octavia Hartwick were married on January 30, 1954. Upon that union, Mary's initials were changed to M.O.M., and 15 months later, on Easter Sunday, her first son was born.
My parents didn't plan to have many kids. But their son was followed by six daughters. Then got five more sons AND five more daughters. "What's better family planning than to have one child every year?" Dad asked.
Just before their 17th and last child was born in 1974, the Illinois Department of Revenue sent my parents a notice:
Internal Revenue Service information indicates that you claimed six more exemptions on your 1971 Illinois tax return than on your federal return. Based on this information, your Illinois tax was recalculated. You are consequently being assessed $211.
Dad, a certified public accountant, was furious. Would he make a mistake on his own tax return? Mom was amused. It reminded her of the time someone saw all her kids in the back yard and accused her of running an illegal nursery.
Dad gradually yielded to Mom's enjoyment of the irony. One night he came home from work with a sheepish grin and handed her a piece of paper. "I wrote a letter," he said. "What do you think?"
Mom noticed his impish look and peered at the scribbled statement addressed to the Director of the Department of Revenue:
Dear Sir, We received your communication informing me and my wife that, according to the federal government, we did not have 15 children in 1971 as reported on our state income-tax return, but only had nine children and therefore owe the state $211. I wish to thank you very much for this information. There has always been disagreement between my wife and me about the exact number. We just had our 20th wedding anniversary, and now she says we have 16, all conceived right and proper after we were married. Now I agree with you and the federal government that that's a bit unbelievable. The trouble is that though my wife ain't too bright about some things, she can count pretty good. It may be some pesky neighbor has slipped a few of his into my house and I been boardin' them. I'm at a loss as to how to solve our problem. I'd count them myself but I can't get 'em to stand still long enough in one place. The one thing I can say for sure is that there does seem to be a lot of 'em around. Heck, my wife even claims she's goin' to have another one 'bout April. I reckon the best thing would be to contact the infernal revenooers again and see what evidence they have to support their figures. I hear they are pretty good lately at gettin' confidential information. I hope you don't think I'm disputin' your word-- it's my wife I can't convince. I'd send you the $211 if it was up to me, but I can't 'cause she hid my checkbook again. Whatever you find out, you should communicate direct with my wife from now on. I didn't have much to do with this in the first place, and if I ask her how she had so many children, she just says she does it the same way ever'body else does. If I was you, though, I wouldn't send no personal representative to see her just yet. For the past few days she's been stompin' around and mumblin' things about the government like you'd never believe.
Mom liked the letter so much she typed it up and mailed it right off. Eventually, the Tax Processing Center figured out its mistake.
Our notice to you was generated because of an oversight in our computer program. This has been corrected so that we should not bother you again. Normally, we are called everything in the world except human beings. Your letter was so unusual that it received special handling.
Two weeks later my sister Mary was born, and Dad kept the saga going by writing again:
I just thought I would let you know that she did it again, baby girl, 7 lb. 10 oz. I would have invited you into the delivery room so you could see with your own eyes, but there was a lot of moanin' and groanin' in there and I figured you already heard enough of that bein' a tax collector. She was born on April Fools' Day and I don't want that to create any fresh suspicions in your mind.
A few days later a special card arrived, signed by more than 75 employees of the Tax Processing Center. The last one to sign was Dan Walker, then governor of Illinois:
Congratulations on the Birth of Your New Exemption!