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- From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: politically correct...
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:23:40 -0000
- Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
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- References: <1993Jan15.231838.27483@nevada.edu> <C0zA2G.F59@portal.hq.videocart.com> <1993Jan21.233447.6712@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.233447.6712@wam.umd.edu> ara@wam.umd.edu (Ford Prefect) writes:
- >Political correctness has infiltrated the halowed and mysterious
- >nether regions of Computer Science !!!
- >The "Traveling Salesman Problem" has become the
- >"Traveling Salesperson Problem"
-
- A proto-feminist acquaintance of mine, trying to make a point about something,
- said "you never hear any jokes about the traveling saleswoman and the farmer's
- son." So I told her this one, probably an ancient Playboy Party Joke or
- something...
-
- A traveling saleswoman's car broke down, and she had to spend the night at
- a nearby farmhouse. The farmer said "you can stay here if you like, but
- you'll have to sleep with my handsome, strapping son." She got very horny
- at the sight of the aforementioned hunk, and crawled in next to him on one
- side of the bed. He moved to the other side, so she crawled in there and he
- moved back, etc. Finally, in frustration, she said, "I don't believe you
- know what I want at all!" And he said, "Shure ah do - you want the whole
- damn bed, but you ain't a-gonna git it!"
-
- Well, I didn't say it was any good...
-
- >the day will come when the "man" command on UNIX will become "person"
- >oh wow is the day when even UNIX will fall prey to PC!!!
-
- PC infiltrated Nerdland nearly 20 years ago, when the terms "father" and
- "son" (to describe processes, tree nodes, you name it) were changed -
- almost overnight, as if by some common signal - to the non-sexist "parent"
- and "child". Still waiting for PC alternatives to "master" and "slave",
- though...
-
- Andrew Rogers
-