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From: vevea@paideia.uchicago.edu (Jack L. Vevea)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 28 Feb 89 08:54:23 GMT
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In article <864@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> morris@jade.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mike Morris) writes:
	(lots of folklore deleted)

>Or the rev 1.0 of a OS that deleted the file, but forgot to mark the space
>as free...  It didn't take long for a 10mb disk to shrink to < 1mb...

	As long as you're naming names on everything, why not give credit
here:  this one was Prime's sublime accomplishment, if I'm not mistaken.



OBJ (paraphrased from April '89 Playboy, not by permission; offensive
to lawyers):

	A lawyer was approached by the devil one day.  The Prince of 
Darkness informed him that he could arrange it so that he would win _all_
of his court cases, make twice as much money, work half as hard, be 
appointed to the Supreme Court by the age of 49, and live to be 90.  All
he had to do was promise the devil his soul, the soul of his wife, his
children, and the souls of all of his ancestors.
	The lawyer thought for a minute, and then responded:  "So what's
the catch?"