Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ur-tut.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!scco From: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: English decaying Message-ID: <263@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 14:13:15 EST Article-I.D.: ur-tut.263 Posted: Mon Dec 2 14:13:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 08:11:11 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <2472@sunybcs.UUCP> <1188@jhunix.UUCP> <506@cylixd.UUCP> <371@kepler.UUCP> <2013@bmcg.UUCP> Reply-To: scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 57 Keywords: Generalized questions In article <2013@bmcg.UUCP> bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price) writes: >>>"May I ask who's calling?" "You sure may." >>"Do you know what time it is?" "Yes I do." >>"Would you mind telling me the time?" "Not at all." >>"What time do you have?" "I have Pacific Standard Time." >"May I ask a question?" "You just did." >"May I ask another question?" "You just did." >"May I ..., oh, never mind." >--Bill Price uucp: {Most Anybody}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice > arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc A conversation over the computer between a user and an operator of a large IBM mainframe running VM/370. The names have been omitted to protect the extremely clever and the extremely stupid/gullible.... 16:31:22 MSG FROM JOEUSER : GOT ANY DRIVES? Operator looks around room... MSG JOEUSER YES. 30. (Disk + Tape + ...) R; 16:35:08 MSG FROM JOEUSER : ARE ANY FREE? MSG JOEUSER SURE ARE. R; 16:36:58 MSG FROM JOEUSER : CAN I HAVE ONE? MSG JOEUSER SURE, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU COULD LIFT ANY OF THEM... R; Another amusing situation occured when a user called the operator on a Sunday morning when a scheduled shutdown had taken a little longer than expected... RRRrrring... Operator : Hello? User : Hi, is the CPU up? Operator : Nope... User : Will it be up soon? Operator (in faked Texas accent) : HELL NO! We ain't even got the smoke out of the machine room yet! User : Oh... Goodbye! ...And one that I was lucky enough to witness: 09:23:16 MSG FROM FREDUSER : HELP! I CAN'T LOG OFF! I'm serious - all these actually occured! -Sean Colbath "Dave, why don't you take a stress pill and lie down for a while?" UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!scco BITNET: SCCO@UORVM