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|  Message 3560  |
|  Anton Shepelev to Alan Ianson  |
|  A programmer joke  |
|  07 Feb 21 12:04:56  |
 MSGID: 2:221/6.0 601fbb42 REPLY: 423.fido-englisht@1:153/757.2 24847e05 PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20201225 CHRS: CP437 2 TZUTC: 0200 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2020-11-09 Alan Ianson: AI> I think that almost perfectly says what the author is AI> trying to convey. Being a perfectionist, I don't like that "almost" of yours. For example, I had several false starts with the initial sentence: A programmer's mother asks her son: Ambiguous: what if her other son is a solicitor? Our lecturer in combinatorics used to preface every lecture by popular jokes or her own obscure verse, depending on her current mood. On of the jokes told about three scientists on a train, whose respective vocations I forget. Let it be a philospher, a mathematicial, and a statistician. Upon enter- ing Switzerland, the statistician looks out the window and exclaims: S. : Looky! Sheep in this coutry are black. Ph.: At least one sheep in this country is black. M. : At least one sheep is black at least on one side. --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305 226/30 227/114 SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/101 424 426 664 1016 1017 240/1120 1634 1895 SEEN-BY: 240/2100 5138 5411 5832 5853 8001 8002 8005 249/206 317 261/38 SEEN-BY: 280/5003 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 371/52 382/147 SEEN-BY: 2454/119 PATH: 221/6 5020/1042 261/38 240/1120 5832 229/426 |
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