Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmum.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watmum!cdshaw From: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Doug the smug Message-ID: <167@watmum.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 02:55:27 EDT Article-I.D.: watmum.167 Posted: Tue Jun 18 02:55:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Jun-85 01:35:26 EDT Reply-To: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 49 <> } ...I suspect one of them has a very advanced AI } expert system for generating articles apparently written by me. } } The realization that the algorithm for my thinking process has propogated } over the net gives me a new feeling of imortality! I hope they wrote } down the method they use to emulate me. Cause then, even long after I'm } dead, I will exist on that piece of paper...... [ And more fatuous nonsense ] } } Doug Alan They did write it down... look ! Take a dash of Jeff S., add 2 (two) pounds of Alex Q... 1.5 inches of Scott T. (and that's stretching things), a couple of ounces of Rich R. a pinch (nudge nudge) of Laura C. one metric tonne of Ken A. (either.. take your pick) Mix these ingredients in a large vat of pig grease, pour in some wombat blood (shaken, not stirred) toss in a micro-waved cat for that extra-special aroma, add 3 (count 'em, THREE) dead babies to kill the bitter aftertaste left by the first 6 ingredients, and throw in a fresh slug, (see Subject line). Let sit in a Canadian winter (somewhere cosy like Churchill, Manitoba where even the garbage-feeding polar bears would turn up their noses) Heat over an open FLAME, then serve in an appropriate newsgroup, (like net.bugs.2bsd) In C, it looks as follows: main() { printf( "Something dumb\n" ); } (C) The above recipe taken from Field's "The Joy of Cooking Egos" Chris Shaw watmath!watmum!cdshaw or cdshaw@watmath WaterPerversity of Uniloo In doubt? Eat hot high-speed death -- the experts' choice in gastric vileness ! (Appropriate, given the cooked context) << end of joke >>