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- From: mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas)
- Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,rec.humor
- Subject: Care for a copy?
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:22:56 GMT
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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- The usual disclaimers apply...
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- It was early in the evening, and I was walking around campus with
- a good friend of mine. It just so happened that our trek took us past
- one of the local copy centers, a large and busy outfit that is open 24
- hours. As we walked by, a bright, neon sign that read "COLOR COPIES"
- caught my eye.
- I had an idea.
-
- "What are you doing tonight?" I asked my friend.
-
- "How late is 'tonight'?"
-
- "Well...how about, say, 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning?"
-
- His first answer was, regrettebly, unprintable...but with a little
- effort I was able to convince him to help me carry out my plan.
-
- We met at my place at about 2:15, and went over the details. At
- 2:30, I strolled over to the copy store, and went inside. Only one
- person was working, and she seemed to be pretty busy, so the timing
- was perfect.
- I strolled up to the counter (yes, we do have counters in Indiana).
-
- "I'd like color copies made of these, please."
-
- She looked down at my papers and gave me a perplexed look. I was
- holding several pie charts that had been copied on a plain old xerox
- machine. They certainly weren't in color.
-
- "But those are plain, black and white xerox copies. Why on Earth would you
- you want to use the color copier for black and white copying??"
-
- After a little arguing, I finally convinced her to use the color copier
- to make copies of my charts, despite the fact that it would cost me more
- than 8 or 9 times as much. I payed her the money up front, signalled my
- friend just as she was loading the color copier, and he came in. He had a
- "rush" job that he needed ASAP, and she set up the large copier while my
- copies were being run off.
- Acting quickly, I quietly removed a stack of color copies from my
- backpack that my friend and I had had made earlier that evening at another
- store. I ducked behind the counter, removed the black and white images
- from the output tray of the color copier, and quicky replaced them with
- the color ones.
- When my friend's "rush job" was finished, the clerk went over to the
- color copier, and removed the copies without looking at them. When she
- got to the desk, she handed them to me.
-
- "Is that what you wanted?" she asked.
-
- I turned them over so that she could see the pie charts in all their
- colorful splendor.
-
- Her jaw dropped open in amazement.
-
- "Damn!", I exclaimed, "These turned out better than I'd expected!"
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