Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: True StorySubject: True Story Message-ID: <559@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 22:21:14 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.559 Posted: Sun Mar 9 22:21:14 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Mar-86 07:46:12 EST References: <3331@sun.uucp> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 25 Along the same lines: It came to our attention in Jr. High that groups of randoms would move from club to club, try to outnumber the established membership, and vote in their own (and often useless) friends as officers. Well, determined to do something about this, we launched a covert operation, and the following message was fraudulently added to the daily announcements: "The Coprophaegy club will meet today at 3:00 in the lunch room." Seven people showed up. -dave (word to the confused: "Look it up") -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu ARPA n. [acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency.] An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense established in 1968 to test its defenses against misuse and piracy in the large-scale distributed processing environment. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"