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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!olivea!tymix!rael!filfeit
- From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Green Golf Ball Joke
- Message-ID: <2836@tymix.Tymnet.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:13:01 GMT
- References: <BxtCwt.C0v@mach1.wlu.ca>
- Sender: usenet@tymix.Tymnet.COM
- Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
- Lines: 27
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rael
-
- It's time to set the record straight on the Green Golf Ball Joke.
-
- The GGBJ has never appeared in this group or any other. Internet
- is set up to recognize and delete the GGBJ whenever it is sent.
-
- It cannot be sent translated or uuencoded. It cannot be transmitted
- in text, zip, lha, compress, or any other coding method.
-
- This was originally done as an experiment in Artificial Intelligence.
- The goal was to have the net check and reject the GGBJ. It now does
- so in over 350 permutations and a total of 72 languages and dialects.
-
- I, personally, translated it to Mandarin, scanned it into a gif file,
- converted it to jpeg, broke it into four pieces, each rotated ninety
- degrees, and it STILL REJECTED IT, although part one did get through
- before the rest were stopped. My account, however, was cancelled.
-
- If you really want the GGBJ, try giving a snail mail or fax address.
- Maybe someone will send it that way.
-
- Sorry.
-
- --f2
-
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