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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A Unix nightmare
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 22:41:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 22:41:00 1985
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat    Jul 18 21:41:00 1985


A similar thing happened to someone here. It was a couple of years ago, and
he was doing configuration control for a unix port. He dreamed that he had
to write a device driver for his refrigerator before he could use it. (Very
sad ... the poor guy is a manager now.) His partner on the project in charge
of quality assurance dreamed that he was standing in the middle of the road
and a huge steamroller (labelled with the project name, in the best
tradition of political cartoons) was heading straight for him. In the dream
he was handed an object and told to go out and stop the steamroller. When he
got close to it, he noticed the object he'd been handed was a sponge. Sad,
but true.

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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