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- From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Halfwits.
- Message-ID: <By4r61.Eo2@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:25:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.221219.17457@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
- >In <By1FJC.4K8@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
- >
- >> ObPeeve: Taking 2 hours to complete a journey that usually takes
- >>1/2 hour because of traffic. There wasn't even much snow down. Halifax must
- >>have been invaded by Americans who haven't the slightest idea how to drive in
- >>snow.
- >
- >I hate that! And that's why we send them up there. Beware, our lawyers are
- >soon to follow.
-
- That reminds me of a political cartoon I saw recently in the local
- paper about (yet another) government inquiry (you can tell that we're governed
- by lawyers...). A man was getting out of the water screaming "AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
- HUNDREDS OF LAWYERS!!!!!!"
-
- He was covered in leeches. :)
-
- Law school reminds me of an old Jay Leno Doritos commercial: "Don't
- worry - we'll make more." :)
-
- Peeve: A lot of law students. Almost as arrogant as engineers, but most of
- them know less than engineers do about computers. For example, a couple
- of years ago (pre-law school) when I was working in the computer labs
- here, I warned a law student that the system was slightly unstable and,
- as a result, they should save their work often. They said, "Oh, I don't
- care - it's only a couple of pagesi, so I didn't bring a disk." They
- went to it and, sure enough, the Mac crashed just as they were going to
- print their 10 page masterpiece. When they came to me to find out what
- was wrong, I told them that their Mac had crashed and, as a result,
- their document was gone. They replied, "But it can't be! It's due in
- 10 minutes!" They then tried to blame the entire incident on me, even
- though I warned them earlier about the instability. Feh.
-
- Actually, Bill, send 'em up - they might slip on the ice and kill
- themselves, thus making more business for us Canadian lawyers.
-
- Sean
- --
- Sean Smith - Dalhousie University "I'm not paid to think - that's management."
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Don Cherry for Prime Minister in
- 01SSMITH@AC.DAL.CA or smith@ug.cs.dal.ca '93 in Canada!
- Disclaimer: These ideas are mine...ALL MINE!! 'Cause noone else'd want 'em.
-