don@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (02/19/85)
The continued reading of net.politics over the period of the last few months
brings to mind a joke which expresses my sentiments about the quality and
content of many postings. Caveat lector!
--
A bartender is standing behind his bar, waiting for customers, and with nothing
to do, since the bar is empty. At this point, a middle-aged man, somewhat
under the weather, enters and staggers up to the bar. He orders a drink, and
slumps on his barstool.
After staring at the drink, and then looking around the bar, he says to the
bartender, "Hey, since there are no other customers around, I'd like to pass
the time of day talking to you. How about it?"
The bartender, bored because of the lack of customers, says, "OK! What would
you like to talk about?"
The customer replies, "I'd like to talk politics."
The bartender, nothing loth, agrees, "Fine! We'll talk politics! But first,
let me ask you a question." The customer nods assent, and the bartender goes
on, "You know, if you put a cow out to pasture, the grass it eats and digests
finally comes out as a sloppy, soupy cow-pie. But if you put a horse out to
eat the same grass it comes out as soft, yet firm, horse-apples. To continue,
if a sheep eats the same grass, it comes out as bunches of small spheres, like
grapes, but if a rabbit eats the grass it comes out as hard, black pellets.
Why is it the products are so different?"
The customer simply shrugs his shoulders and says, "I don't know."
The bartender looks at him in disgust, and says, "You're just like most of the
guys that come in here. You want to talk politics, and you don't even know
shit!"
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"Dh' aindeoin co theireadh e!"
Don Curry
Computer Facilities & Operations
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720 (415) 642-3043
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