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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:32:15 EST
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- From: "Peter H. Brenton" <pete@BIOCHEM.UCHICAGO.EDU>
- Subject: Re: No Subject
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- I agree with MW (Stop shouting-only in part-read on). The German has to go (or
- at least include subtitles). This should be a pseudo-intellectual venue, not
- one which requires any degree of true learning.
-
- Regarding the rest of that person's message, she/he should realize that
- tasteless humor is often supressed despite it's poignancy simply because it is
- tasteless. I think MW would counter that if that particular example had been
- GOOD humor he/she would not have had as much of a problem.
-
- As a student of Psychology, I did admire the pseudo-clinical psychological
- terminolgy MW used to describe ye folk (us folk?) "insecurity-inferiority"
- wow, as meaningless a noise as has ever come down th pseudo-intellectual
- pipeline.
-
- Finally, in an attempt to bring truly interesting humor to this list, here is a
- little item which some have probably seen already;
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- Return-Path: <jcb@vertigo>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 11:12:42 EST
- From: jcb@vertigo (John Barstow)
- To: core@vertigo, home@vertigo, port@vertigo
- Subject: humor
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- My brother forwarded this to me today ...
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- WHAT DRIVING TO THE STORE WOULD BE LIKE IF OPERATING SYSTEMS RAN YOUR CAR
-
- >> MS-DOS: You get in the car and try to remember where you put your keys.
-
- >> Windows: You get in the car and drive to the store very slowly, because
- attached to the back of the car is a freight train.
-
- >> Macintosh System 7: You get in the car to go to the store, and the car
- drives you to church.
-
- >> UNIX: You get in the car and type GREP STORE. After reaching speeds of
- 200 miles per hour en route, you arrive at the barber shop.
-
- >> Windows NT: You get in the car and write a letter that says, "go to the
- store." Then you get out of the car and mail the letter to your
- dashboard.
-
- >> Taligent/Pink: You walk to the store with Ricardo Montalban, who tells
- you how wonderful it will be when he can fly you to the store in his
- Learjet.
-
- >> OS/2: After fueling up with 6000 gallons of gas, you get in the car and
- drive to the store with a motorcycle escort and a marching band in
- procession. Halfway there, the car blows up, killing everybody in town.
-
- >> S/36 SSP [mainframe, obv.]: You get in the car and drive to the store.
-
- Halfway there you run out of gas. While walking the rest of the way,
- you are run over by kids on mopeds.
-
- >> OS/400: An attendant locks you into the car and then drives you to the
- store, where you get to watch everybody else buy filet mignons.
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