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- Announcements and Observations
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- Scientists at England's University of East Anglia recently discovered
- that the famous ruins at Stonehenge were not, as previous believed,
- used by the Druids as a calendar. It turns out that Stonehenge is
- the oldest computer system built by mankind. Further, it has been
- determined that the Druids did not die out, but went bankrupt while
- trying to debug the software.
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- True story about an unfortunate programmer at an unnamed bank: the
- bank wanted to target its wealthiest customers with a direct mailing
- promoting various new services and the programmer in question wrote a
- program to select the 2000 wealthiest customers from the bank's
- records and to generate an appropriate letter for each. In the
- process of testing the program, he made use of a fictitious customer
- named Rich Bastard.
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- Unfortunately, as you may already have guessed, something went amiss
- and every single one of the bank's 2000 prize customers received a
- letter which began "Dear Rich Bastard, . . ." As you may have also
- guessed, the programmer lost his job over the incident.
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- The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that the whole
- sordid "Dolphin Free Tuna" campaign was a hoax. It turns out that
- the dolphins were running a protection racket, wherein the tuna were
- paying them to stop, or at least drastically slow down, the evil tuna
- fishing industry.
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- Officials first became suspicious when animal rights activists began
- to demand a "Dolphin Free Beef" program. It seems that dolphins were
- turning up in railroad cattle cars being unloaded at stockyards in
- Kansas City, Missouri. An unidentified USDA spokesman was quoted as
- saying, "I don't understand why everyone thinks that dolphins are so
- damned smart. Getting caught in fishing nets was plausible enough,
- but Kansas City is over 1000 miles from any ocean."
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