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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!edcastle!fofp
- From: fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: A brain is a terrible thing to waste
- Message-ID: <28202@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:57:31 GMT
- References: <28189@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 21
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- jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
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- >True story:
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- >Person A "It's my birthday today"
- >Person B "How old are you?"
- >Person A "I'm not telling you, but I've gained a binary digit"
- >Person B, who can now be revealed as a UserSupportoid, an employee
- >of the COMPUTING SERVICE ferchrissakes "Oh, so you're 48".
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- >Nuff said.
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- Still, you'll be glad that she's 16 and it's now legal :-)
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- ObDenial: It wasn't me, I can count :-)
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- FoFP
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- We wonder why other folks regard computing people as weird while we
- persistently refer to small, square objects as "discs".
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