From werner Wed Jul 13 14:06:34 1988
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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Subject: It depends on how many flats they brought with them
Keywords: chuckle
Date: 15 Aug 88 03:30:02 GMT
A computer salesman, a hardware engineer, and a software engineer are driving
in a car together. Suddenly the right rear tire blows out, ahd the car rolls
to a stop. Our three heroes pile out to investigate.
The salesman tsk-tsks sadly. "Time to buy a new car!" he announces.
Says the hardware engineer, "Well, first let's try swapping the front and
rear tires, and see if that fixes it."
Replies the software engineer, "Naw, let's just try driving the car again,
and maybe the problem will go away by itself."
[Blame it on laz@pyramid. He told it to me.]
From werner Wed Jul 13 14:06:34 1988
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From: baulch@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (Garth Baulch)
Subject: Double negatives
Keywords: rec.humor, rec_humor_cull, chuckle
Date: 23 Aug 88 15:30:04 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day about the
fact that in many languages, such as English, a double negative forms
a positive, while in other languages, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. "However," he pointed out, "in no language can
a double positive form a negative."
A bored voice from the back of the room responded, "Yeah, yeah...."
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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Subject: It depends on how many flats they brought with them
Keywords: chuckle
Date: 15 Aug 88 03:30:02 GMT
A computer salesman, a hardware engineer, and a software engineer are driving
in a car together. Suddenly the right rear tire blows out, ahd the car rolls
to a stop. Our three heroes pile out to investigate.
The salesman tsk-tsks sadly. "Time to buy a new car!" he announces.
Says the hardware engineer, "Well, first let's try swapping the front and
rear tires, and see if that fixes it."
Replies the software engineer, "Naw, let's just try driving the car again,
and maybe the problem will go away by itself."
[Blame it on laz@pyramid. He told it to me.]
From werner Wed Jul 13 14:06:34 1988
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From: baulch@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (Garth Baulch)
Subject: Double negatives
Keywords: rec.humor, rec_humor_cull, chuckle
Date: 23 Aug 88 15:30:04 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day about the
fact that in many languages, such as English, a double negative forms
a positive, while in other languages, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. "However," he pointed out, "in no language can
a double positive form a negative."
A bored voice from the back of the room responded, "Yeah, yeah...."
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