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From: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Yet Another Yet Another
Message-ID: <1983@gondor.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 01:29:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 01:29:01 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 02:32:52 EST
Reply-To: okunewck@gondor.UUCP (Philip E. OKunewick)
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Strange thought occur to oneself while taking a shower, such as "Does
everything go away when I close my eyes and shampoo my hair?" or "What
will happen if the wall runs out of water?"

Now, if we post all these thoughts onto net.jokes, we should be able to
come up with a pretty strange collection of pretty strange stuff.

Which brings us to the matter at hand...

This collection would be referred to as Yet Another Shower Thought, or YAST.

Does anyone see a pattern forming?

(Don't the water beads make a nifty pattern on the wall?)

Well, here's a VERY SERIOUS thought that occurred to me...

We have had Yet Another Liscense Plate (YALP), Yet Another Light Bulb
Joke (YALBJ), Yet Another Modem Joke (YAMJ)...

We seem to be forming a series classified as YAnn, where nn is any class
into which classless humor can be classed.

In other words, we keep on getting Yet Another Yet Another!! (YAYA)


Okay, now one of the interesting tidbits about this group is that as a
new attempt at humor occurs, many people will forget that they got it
off net.jokes, and post it to the bboard thinking that they are the first
ones to post it.  So, by the time we read the 6th one of these, we have hit
upon (Ready for this?)...

Yet Another Yet Another Yet Another! (YAYAYA)

This one may be a little hard to follow.  Think of it as
    Yet Another (Yet Another Yet Another)
or  Yet Another ((Yet Another (Yet Another)))

Still confused?  Well, stick it bub.  While you ponder this one, the rest
of us are going on to deeper thoughts.

Now where were we before we had to stop for lamebrain out there?  Oh, yes...

For those of you who understand recursion, this series does not have an
ending case.  In other words we are getting ourselves into a stack which
will grow until it has tied up all the storage space on the network!!

It won't stop there - the network will spill onto other storage space, and
soon every disk in the country will be filled with Yet Anothers.

(Imagine the stack's delight as it finds Yet Another Disk Drive.)


The worst part about this is that I haven't the slightest idea what to do
about it.  Best I can figure is that we have 6 months, a year at the most,
before every hard disk, floppy, and mag tape in the world is used up!

Does anyone have a solution to this dilemma?  WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE!!

I'm gonna go take another shower and see what I can come up with.

                                                    ---Duck

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The preceeding thoughts do not necessarly reflect those of the water company,
generic shampoo, or my soap dish.
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