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From: MJackson.Wbst@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: An AI Joke
Message-ID: <15284@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 08:45:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 08:45:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jan-84 06:48:48 EST
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Last week a cartoon appeared in our local (Rochester NY) paper.  It was
by a fellow named Toles, a really excellent editorial cartoonist who
works out of, of all places, Buffalo:

Panel 1:

[medium view of the Duckburg Computer School building.  A word balloon
extends from one of the windows]
"A lot of you wonder why we have to spend so much time studying these
things."

Panel 2:

[same as panel 1]
"It so happens that they represent a lot of power.  And if we want to
understand and control that power, we have to study them."

Panel 3:

[interior view of a classroom full of personal computers.  At right,
several persons are entering.  At left, a PC speaks]
". . .so work hard and no talking.  Here they come."

Tickler (a mini-cartoon down in the corner):

[a lone PC speaks to the cartoonist]
"But I just HATE it when they touch me like that. . ."


Mark