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From: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 11 Feb 89 04:47:11 GMT
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I used to work at a Honeywell installation, where we had a super-genius
of a systems engineer, affectionately known as "Gentle Ben".  This man
could read system dump the way most people would read the funny papers
(or the net? :-)  He was the core of systems intelligence.  

But as super-genius people are sometimes labelled "eccentric", Gentle Ben
was not an exception: 

Smoking in the computer room was verboten, and he knew it.  But he would
light up right at the operator's console, take a few drags, then suddenly
remember something and dash off, stuffing his *lit* cigarette into his
coat pocket... then wonder where the burning smell was coming from.

Drinking was also a no-no in the computer room, but Ben would stop by the
coffee machine on his way into the computer room and walk in with his cup
in one hand, his cigarette in the other.  On several occasions he was 
observed to place his cigarette *into* the coffee cup (still with coffee
in it) and a few minutes later, while engrossed in problem solving, take
a sip of the coffee... cigarette and all.. and not even notice!!!


Peggy



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