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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: PanzerGeneral who wrote ()4/1/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Jay  Read Replies (2) of 62567
 
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk I have a workstation........

Mistakes
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

>> Theoretical Question

At a recent computer software engineering course in the US, the
participants were given an awkward question to answer:

"If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of
programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, how many
of you would disembark immediately?"
>>
Among the ensuing forest of raised hands only one man sat motionless.
When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to
stay aboard. With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to
even taxi as far as the runway, let alone takeoff.
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