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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke

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To: SJS who wrote (6469)8/14/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: MENSO  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
GREAT Mainframe...

i find your mainframe comments rather puzzling, frank...

you see, frank, humor requires not only the by-comparison relatively simple ability to converse with humans. it also requires the by-comparison mind-boggling capability to interpret and manipulate both the meaning and the context of the written word. no mainframe on earth is capable of doing that - only HAL9000 series computers can...

in summary, frank, the letters I, B, and M may be alphabetically adjacent to the letters H, A, and L; but that is as close to a mainframe as any self-respecting HAL9000 series computer would ever like to be...
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