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 Message 3560 
 Anton Shepelev to Alan Ianson 
 A programmer joke 
 07 Feb 21 12:04:56 
 
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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.

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