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Subject:humor From:Jane Torpie <Jane_Torpie_at_III-HQ -at- RELAY -dot- PROTEON -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 5 Oct 1993 10:40:00 EST
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How many IBM technical writers does it take to change a light bulb?
100; 10 to do it, and 90 to write doc. no. GC611604-0003, "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 foobar consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by
blanks."
Courtesy of _Real Times_, the newsletter of the Greater Boston Chapter of
the ACM.
