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- The following is all I have collected from rec.humor and various other
- sources over the course of my college career.
-
- Enjoy!
-
-
- WARNING:
- =======
-
- Some material may be considered obscene and offensive. Reader
- discretion is advised.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: WANTED: light-bulb jokes
-
- How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb??
- None, it's a hardware problem.
-
-
- Subject: Coup Leader's Handbook
-
- The scene: Moscow. The time: mid-August. A group of high-level
- officials meet in a smoke-filled room.
-
- YANEYEV: Gentlemen, is agreed that we must throw out Gorbachev.
- But how?
-
- KRYUCHKOV: Is no problem, comrade. I have instruction manual!
- Is "KGB Guide to Overthrowing Soviet Government,
- Revised Edition, 1963. 'Available fine bookstores
- everwhere. 50 rubles. In this fact-filled new
- edition, KGB experts describe how anyone...'"
-
- PAVLOV: Skip to good part, comrade.
-
- KRYUCHKOV: Here it is. 'Five steps to a successful coup.
- 1. Arrest leader and announce that he is ill.
- 2. Seize TV and radio stations to suppress news.
- 3. Crush opposition.'
-
- YANEYEV: What about democratically elected officials? FAX
- machine? Foreign correspondants? World opinion?
- Foreign aid? General strikes?
-
- KRYUCHKOV: No, is nothing here about that.
-
- PAVLOV: Must not be important, then.
-
- YANEYEV: No, I suppose not.
-
- --
-
- The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary
- - --------------------------------
-
- :-) Your basic smilie. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or
- joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.
- ;-) Winky smilie. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark.
- More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smilie.
- :-( Frowning smilie. User did not like that last statement or is upset
- or depressed about something.
- :-I Indifferent smilie. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as
- good as a happy smilie
- :-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a :-).
-
- Those are the basic ones...Here are some somewhat less common ones:
-
- (-: User is left handed
- %-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight
- :*) User is drunk
- [:] User is a robot
- 8-) User is wearing sunglasses
- :-{) User has a mustache
- :-{} User wears lipstick
- {:-) User wears a toupee
- :-)~ User drools
- :-~) User has a cold
- :'-( User is crying
- :'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying
- :-@ User is screaming
- |-I User is asleep
- :-P Nyahhhh!
- :-X User's lips are sealed
- :-C User is really bummed
- :-/ User is skeptical
- :-o Uh oh!
- (8-o It's Mr. Bill!
- *:o) And Bozo the Clown!
- :-9 User is licking his/her lips
- %-6 User is braindead
- [:-) User is wearing a walkman
- (:I User is an egghead
- <:-I User is a dunce
-
- :) Midget smilie
- :] Gleep...a friendly midget smilie who will gladly be your friend
- =) Variation on a theme...
- :) - Happy
- :] - Gleep
- :D - Laughter
- :I - Hmmm...
- :( - Sad
- :[ - Real Downer
- :< - what?
- :{ - what?
- :O - Yelling
- :,( - Crying
- [] - Hugs and
- :* - Kisses
- |I - Asleep
- |^o -Snoring
-
- ====================================================================
-
- There was a professor who was doing experiments with a frog. He was
- teaching a frog to jump. The training went on for a while and finally
- when he said "Jump!" the frog jumped high in the air. He thought
- it was time to take some measurements and publish the results.
-
- He started his measurements with a twine, a ruler and a knife. He
- placed the frog on a wooden cutting plate and said "jump". It jumped
- and he measured the height it jumped. He wrote in his observation
- note book: "Height jumped (with 4 legs): 14 inches. Inference: None".
- Then he cut one of the legs off the frog and said jump. It jumped to
- a height of 10 inches. Inference: None. Then he cut the next leg, and
- measured the height jumped. Because it had only 2 legs the height
- jumped was only 5 inches. The he cut one more leg and the frog now
- had only one leg. The height jumped was just 1 inch with one leg.
- Again the inference was none. Then he cut the last leg of the frog
- and said "jump!". It didn't move at all. He wrote his inference in
- the note book: "When we removed all the four legs, it was not able
- to hear!".
-
-
- Subject: restroom humor
-
- no matter how you shake,
- no matter how you dance,
- the last drop is always,
- in your pants!
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Mark Elliott Sex is hereditary. Chances are if your
- melliott@trojan.convex.com parents never had it, neither will you.
-
-
-
- Two guys are in a bar. A Chinese girl starts flirting with one of them.
- Pretty soon, he goes over and introduces himself, and off they go. They
- get to her place, and she says [like April] that she liked a lot of oral
- sex. So our friend indulges. Afterward, she says she's had enough, so
- he has to leave. He's not real happy, but complies.
-
- An hour later, he's back in the bar with his friend, explaining what
- happened. Just then, she walks back into the bar, and starts flirting
- with him again. He starts to walk over to her, but his friend says
- "Are you going to go out with her again, after what she did?" To which
- he replies "You know how it is. You eat Chinese, and an hour later you're
- hungry again."
- --
- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov vsnyder@math.Jpl.Nasa.Gov <-- preferred
- ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder ames!elroy!math!vsnyder
- vsnyder@jato.uucp
-
-
-
- Joke 1:
-
- A woman is being told by the dentist that she needs a root canal. She
- says disgustedly, "I'd just as soon have a baby as have a root canal."
-
- The dentist replies, "Make up your mind so I'll know how to adjust the
- chair."
-
- #2:
-
- A woman is at the dentist's. As the dentist bends over to examine her,
- she grabs him where the seams of his trousers come together. He asks,
- "Madam, what are you doing?" She replies, "We're going to be careful
- not to hurt each other, aren't we?"
- --
- Maurice Suhre
- suhre@trwrb.dsd.trw.com
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: Fortune cookie for a man
-
- "you have an unusual equipment for success. be sure to use it properly"
-
- = = = = = = =
-
- Demonstrating once again the importance of the lowly comma,
- this telegram was sent from a wife to her husband:
-
- NOT GETTING ANY, BETTER COME HOME AT ONCE.
-
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- SHIT HAPPENS
-
- in various world religions
- ----------------------------
-
-
- TAOISM: Shit happens.
- If you can shit, it isn't shit.
-
- CONFUCIANISM: Confucious say, "Shit happens".
-
- BUDDHISM: If shit happens, it isn't really shit.
- Shit will happen again to you next time.
-
- ZEN-BUDDHISM: What is the sound of shit happening?
-
- HINDUISM: This shit has happened before.
- This shit is not a religion, it is the way of life.
-
- PROTESTANTISM: If shit happens, it happens to someone else.
- Let shit happen to someone else.
-
- CATHOLICISM: If shit happens, you deserved it.
-
- CHARISMATIC CATHOLICISM:
- Shit is happening because you deserve it, but we love you
- anyway.
-
- JUDAISM: Why does shit always happen to US?
-
- REFORM JUDAISM: Got any laxatives?
-
- ISLAM: That shit happens is the will of Allah.
- If this shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
-
- NEWAGE: That's not shit, it's feldspar.
- A firm shit does not happen to me.
- This isn't shit if I really believe it's chocolate.
- I create my own shit.
-
- EXISTENTIALISM: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
-
- WICCA: If shit happened once, it will happen twice more.
-
- JEHOVAH's WITNESSES:
- No shit happens until Armaggedon.
- There is only a limited amount of good shit.
-
- SECULAR HUMANISM:
- Shit evolves.
-
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:
- When shit happens, don't call a doctor--pray.
-
- ATHEISM: I don't believe this shit.
- It looks and smells like shit, so I'm damned if I'm going
- to taste it.
-
-
- RELIGION FROM AN ATHEIST'S POINT OF VIEW:
- I haven't smelt, seen, touched, or tasted it. But it's
- shit.
-
- RASTAFARIAN: Let's roll that shit up and smoke it.
-
- MORMON: Hey, there's more shit over here!
-
- Baptist: You are shitting all wrong, and you'll be punished for it.
-
- UNITARIANISM: Go ahead, shit anywhere you want.
-
- IRAQI BAATHIST: Oh shit!
-
- VOODOO: Shit doesn't just happen -- somebody dumped it on you.
-
- TELEVANGELISM: Your tax-deductible donation could make this shit stop
- happening.
-
- AGNOSTICISM: It looks and smells like shit, but I haven't tasted it, so
- I'm not sure whether its shit or not.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- SHIT HAPPENS
-
- in other various ways
- -----------------------
-
-
- YUPPIE SHIT: It's my shit! All mine! Isn't it beautiful?
-
- AN EMPLOYER: Shit happens, and rolls down hill.
-
- HEISENBERGISM: Shit happened, we just don't know where.
-
- NIXONISM: Shit didn't happen, and if it did I din't know anything
- about it.
-
- McCARTHYISM: Are you now, or have you ever been, shit?
-
- COMMUNISM: It's everybody's shit.
-
- CAPITALISM: Shit happens, and it'll cost you!
-
- REALISM: I think I need to take a shit.
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- MURPHY'S LAWS AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
-
-
- MURPHY'S LAWS
-
- 1.IF ANYTHING CAN GO WRONG,IT WILL.
- 2.IF THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF SEVERAL THINGS GOING WRONG,THE ONE THAT
- WILL CAUSE THE MOST DAMAGE WILL BE THE FIRST ONE TO GO WRONG.
- 3.IF ANYTHING JUST CANNOT GO WRONG,IT WILL ANYWAY.
- 4.IF YOU PERCEIVE THAT THERE ARE FOUR POSSIBLE WAYS IN WHICH SOMETHING
- CAN GO WRONG,AND CIRCUMVENT THESE,THEN A FIFTH WAY,UNPREPARED FOR,
- WILL PROMPTLY DEVELOP.
- 5.LEFT TO THEMSELVES,THINGS TEND TO GO FROM BAD TO WORSE.
- 6.IF EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WELL,YOU HAVE OBVIOUSLY OVERLOOKED
- SOMETHING.
- 7.NATURE ALWAYS SIDES WITH THE HIDDEN FLAW.
- 8.MOTHER NATURE IS A BITCH.
-
- O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAWS
-
- MURPHY WAS AN OPTOMIST.
-
- GINSBERG'S THEOREMS
-
- 1.YOU CAN'T WIN.
- 2.YOU CAN'T BREAK EVEN.
- 3.YOU CAN'T EVEN QUIT THE GAME.
-
- FORSYTH'S SECOND COROLLARY TO MURPHY'S LAWS
-
- JUST WHEN YOU SEE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL,THE ROOF CAVES
- IN.
-
- WEILER'S LAW
-
- NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE MAN WHO DOESN'T HAVE TO DO IT HIMSELF.
-
- THE LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
-
- 1.ANY GIVEN PROGRAM,WHEN RUNNING,IS OBSOLETE.
- 2.ANY GIVEN PROGRAM COSTS MORE AND TAKES LONGER EACH TIME IT IS RUN.
- 3.IF A PROGRAM IS USEFUL,IT WILL HAVE TO BE CHANGED.
- 4.IF A PROGRAM IS USELESS,IT WILL HAVE TO BE DOCUMENTED.
- 5.ANY GIVEN PROGRAM WILL EXPAND TO FILL ALL THE AVAILABLE MEMORY.
- 6.THE VALUE OF A PROGRAM IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE WEIGHT OF
- ITS OUTPUT.
- 7.PROGRAM COMPLEXITY GROWS UNTIL IT EXCEEDS THE CAPABILITY OF THE
- PROGRAMMER WHO MUST MAINTAIN IT.
-
- PIERCE'S LAW
-
- IN ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM,THE MACHINE WILL ALWAYS MISINTERPRET,MI-
- CONSTRUE,MISPRINT,OR NOT EVALUATE ANY MATH OR SUBROUTINES OR
- FAIL TO PRINT ANY OUTPUT ON AT LEAST THE FIRST RUN THROUGH.
-
- COROLLARY TO PIERCE'S LAW
-
- WHEN A COMPILER ACCEPTS A PROGRAM WITHOUT ERROR ON THE FIRST
- RUN,THE PROGRAM WILL NOT YIELD THE DESIRED OUTPUT.
-
- ADDITION TO MURPHY'S LAWS
- IN NATURE,NOTHING IS EVER RIGHT.THEREFORE,IF EVERYTHING IS
- GOING RIGHT...SOMETHING IS WRONG.
-
- BROOK'S LAW
-
- IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED,TRANSFORM YOUR DATA SET!
-
- GROSCH'S LAW
-
- COMPUTING POWER INCREASES AS THE SQUARE OF THE COST.
-
- GOLUB'S LAWS OF COMPUTERDOM
-
- 1.FUZZY PROJECT OBJECTIVES ARE USED TO AVOID EMBARRASSMENT OF
- ESTIMATING THE CORRESPONDING COSTS.
- 2.A CARELESSLY PLANNED PROJECT TAKES THREE LONGER TO COMPLETE
- THAN EXPECTED; A CAREFULLY PLANNED PROJECT TAKES ONLY TWICE AS
- LONG.
- 3.THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO CORRECT COURSE INCREASES GEOMETRICALLY
- WITH TIME.
- 4.PROJECT TEAMS DETEST WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORTING BECAUSE IT SO
- VIVIDLY MANIFESTS THEIR LACK OF PROGRESS.
-
- OSBORN'S LAW
-
- VARIABLES WON'T;CONSTANTS AREN'T.
-
- GILB'S LAWS OF UNRELIABILITY
-
- 1.COMPUTERS ARE UNRELIABLE,BUT HUMANS ARE EVEN MORE UNRELIABLE.
- 2.ANY SYSTEM THAT DEPENDS UPON HUMAN RELIABILITY IS UNRELIABLE.
- 3.UNDETECTABLE ERRORS ARE INFINITE IN VARIETY,IN CONTRAST TO DETECT-
- ABLE ERRORS,WHICH BY DEFINITION ARE LIMITED.
- 4.INVESTMENT IN RELIABILITY WILL INCREASE UNTIL IT EXCEEDS THE PROB-
- ABLE COST OF ERRORS,OR UNTIL SOMEONE INSISTS ON GETTING SOME USEFUL
- WORK DONE.
-
- LUBARSKY'S LAW OF CYBERNETIC ENTOMOLOGY
-
- THERE'S ALWAYS ONE MORE BUG.
-
- TROUTMAN'S POSTULATE
-
- 1.PROFANITY IS THE ONE LANGUAGE UNDERSTOOD BY ALL PROGRAMMERS.
- 2.NOT UNTIL A PROGRAM HAS BEEN IN PRODUCTION FOR SIX MONTHS WILL
- WILL THE MOST HARMFUL ERROR BE DISCOVERED.
- 3.JOB CONTROL CARDS THAT POSITIVELY CANNOT BE ARRANGED IN IMPROPER
- ORDER WILL BE.
- 4.INTERCHANGEABLE TAPES WON'T.
- 5.IF THE INPUT EDITOR HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO REJECT ALL BAD INPUT,
- AN INGENIOUS IDIOT WILL DISCOVER A METHOD TO GET BAD DATA PAST IT.
- 6.IF A TEST INSTALLATION FUNCTIONS PERFECTLY,ALL SUBSEQUENT SYSTEMS
- WILL MALFUNCTION.
-
- WEINBERG'S SECOND LAW
- IF BUILDERS BUILT BUILDINGS THE WAY PROGRAMMERS WROTE PROGRAMS,THEN
- THE FIRST WOODPECKER THAT CAME ALONG WOULD DESTROY CIVILIZATION.
-
- GUMPERSON'S LAW
-
- THE PROBABILITY OF ANYTHING HAPPENINGIS IN INVERSE RATIO TO ITS
- DESIRABILITY.
-
- GUMMIDGE'S LAW
-
- THE AMOUNT OF EXPERTISE VARIES IN INVERSE RATIO TO THE NUMBER OF
- STATEMENTS UNDERSTOOD BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
-
- ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS
-
- ONCE YOU OPEN A CAN OF WORMS,THE ONLY WAY TO RECAN THEM IS TO USE
- A LARGER CAN (OLD WORMS NEVER DIE,THEY JUST WORM THEIR WAY INTO
- LARGER CANS).
-
- HARVARD'S LAW,AS APPLIED TO COMPUTERS
-
- UNDER THE MOST RIGOROUSLY CONTROLLED CONDITIONS OF PRESSURE,
- TEMPERATURE,VOLUME,HUMIDITY AND OTHER VARIABLES,THE COMPUTER
- WILL DO AS IT DAMN WELL PLEASES.
-
- SATTINGER'S LAW
-
- IT WORKS BETTER IF YOU PLUG IT IN.
-
- JENKINSON'S LAW
-
- IT WON'T WORK.
-
- HORNER'S FIVE THUMB POSTULATE
-
- EXPERIENCE VARIES DIRECTLY WITH EQUIPMENT RUINED.
-
- CHEOP'S LAW
-
- NOTHING EVER GETS BUILD ON SCHEDULE OR WITHIN BUDGET.
-
- RULE OF ACCURACY
-
- WHEN WORKING TOWARD THE SOLUTION OF A PROBLEM,IT ALWAYS HELPS IF
- YOU KNOW THE ANSWER.
-
- ZYMURG'S SEVENTH EXCEPTION TO MURPHY'S LAW
-
- WHEN IT RAINS,IT POURS
-
- PUDDER'S LAWS
-
- 1.ANYTHING THAT BEGINS WELL ENDS BADLY
- 2.ANYTHING THAT BEGINS BADLY ENDS WORSE.
- WESTHEIMER'S RULE
-
- TO ESTIMATE THE TIME IT TAKES TO DO A TASK: ESTIMATE THE TIME YOU
- THINK IT SHOULD TAKE,MULTIPLY BY TWO AND CHANGE THE UNIT OF MEASURE
- TO THE NEXT HIGHEST UNIT.THUS,WE ALLOCATE TWO DAYS FOR A ONE HOUR
- TASK.
-
- STOCKMAYER'S THEOREM
-
- IF IT LOOKS EASY,IT'S TOUGH.IF IT LOOKS TOUGH,IT'S DAMN NEAR IMPOS-
- SIBLE.
-
- ATWOODS COROLLARY
-
- NO BOOKS ARE LOST BY LENDING EXCEPT THOSE YOU PARTICULARLY WANTED TO
- KEEP.
-
- JOHHNSON'S THIRD LAW
-
- IF YOU MISS ONE ISSUE OF ANY MAGAZINE,IT WILL BE THE ISSUE THAT CON-
- TAINS THE ARTICLE,STORY OR INSTALLMENT YOU WERE MOST ANXIOUS TO READ.
-
- COROLLARY TO JOHNSON'S THIRD LAW
-
- ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS EITHER MISSED IT,LOST IT OR THREW IT OUT.
-
- HARPER'S MAGAZINE LAW
-
- YOU NEVER FIND THE ARTICLE UNTIL YOU REPLACE IT.
-
- BROOKE'S LAW
-
- ADDING MANPOWER TO A LATE SOFTWARE MAKES IT LATER.
-
- FINAGLE'S FOURTH LAW
-
- ONCE A JOB IS FOULED UP,ANYTHING DONE TO IMPROVE IT WILL ONLY MAKE
- IT WORSE.
-
- FEATHERKILE'S RULE
-
- WHATEVER YOU DID,THAT'S WHAT YOU PLANNED.
-
- FLAP'S LAW
-
- ANY INANIMATE OBJECT,REGARDLESS OF ITS POSITION,CONFIGURATION OR
- PURPOSE,MAY BE EXPECTED TO PERFORM AT ANY TIME IN A TOTALLY UN-
- EXPECTED MANNER FOR REASONS THAT ARE EITHER ENTIRELY OBSCURE OR
- ELSE COMPLETELY MYSTERIOUS.
-
-
- |*************************************************|
- | HOW DO I LOVE THEE? |
- | |
- | LET ME COUNT THE WAYS... |
- | |
- |*************************************************|
- | 1. SIDEWAYS |
- | 2. UNDER THE PORCH |
- | 3. ON THE BAR |
- | 4. OVER A MARTINI |
- | 5. IN THE BATHTUB |
- | 6. DOWN THE STREET |
- | 7. BETWEEN COMMERCIALS |
- | 8. DURING COMMERCIALS |
- | 9. ACROSS THE BRIDGE |
- | 10. BEFORE THE WEEKEND |
- | 11. NEAR THE SANDTRAP |
- | 12. DURING COFFEE BREAK |
- | 13. ALWAYS AND A L L W A Y S ! |
- | |
- |*************************************************|
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