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- News Flash:
-
- In a surprise move, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced yesterday
- that he has purchased the entire calendar year of 1995. 1995 will be
- replaced instead by "Year-M" to be followed by actual 1995.
-
- "Windows 95 was not going to ship on schedule," Gates said. "But we
- couldn't change the name again... people were starting to get confused.
- So instead of spending a lot of time and money on a new marketing
- campaign we decided just to buy 1995. That way we get an extra year to
- debug Windows and get it shipped for what will be the new 1995."
-
- Microsoft arranged this coup by leveraging its financial assets to bail
- out the Federal Government and pay off the national debt. The IRS is
- being disbanded for next year, but taxes will be collected as usual
- with one change: all checks must be made payable to "Bill Gates."
-
- A side benefit of this purchase is that Gates now owns the judicial
- branch for the duration of "Year-M." Speculators stated that Gates
- would likely use this opportunity to dismiss the numerous lawsuits
- pending against Microsoft. Gates apparently feels this would be cheaper
- than actually hiring lawyers to represent his rickety cases.
-
- In a related story, God has filed suit against Gates because of his
- purchase, claiming time to be the sole property of God. In a
- countersuit, Gates claims God is a monopoly and demands that he be
- broken up into "deity conglomerates."
-
- "Gosh," said Gates. "They broke up AT&T... why can't we break up God?"
-
- Inside sources at Microsoft said that Gates was looking for an early
- resolution to the suit by hiring God as a programmer. Evidently, God
- has the exact profile that Gates is looking for in a programmer: he
- doesn't mind rainy climates, doesn't need any money, isn't married, and
- can work for at least 6 days without sleeping.
-
- "If we could just get some employees like that," Gates lamented, "we
- would be able to ship Windows 95 on time."