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Subject:RE: What, no Friday afternoon silliness? From:Amy Smith/Westford/IBM <amy_smith -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:21:31 -0500
> How many IBM technical writers does it take to change a light bulb?
> 100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001,
> Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the
pages
> state only, ``This page intentionally left blank,'' and 20% of the
> definitions are of the form ``A <...> consists of sequences of non-blank
> characters separated by blanks.''
Ok, so no one thinks we (IBM technical writers) are total drips:
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but the lightbulb has to *want* to change. ;-)
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