From deluded@media.mit.edu Tue Jul 26 13:54:40 1994 Received: from argus.cso.uiuc.edu by ux4.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AB28689 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 26 Jul 1994 13:54:39 -0500 Received: by argus.cso.uiuc.edu id AA44271 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu); Tue, 26 Jul 1994 13:54:35 -0500 Received: from media.mit.edu (media-lab.media.mit.edu) by argus.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA26090 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 26 Jul 1994 13:54:33 -0500 Received: by media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.4.amt) id AA04194; Tue, 26 Jul 94 14:54:30 -0400 X-Ph: V4.3@argus.cso.uiuc.edu From: Ronald Schmelzer Message-Id: <9407261854.AA04194@media.mit.edu> Subject: The Frog Princess (no attribution) (fwd) To: navaho@nwu.edu (Squooshy; Nyerpa) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 14:54:30 EDT Cc: roth@uiuc.edu (Mark; Roth), U59965@uicvm.bitnet (Martinoff; Richard), mbblum@uiuc.edu Content-Length: 1710 Status: RO Forwarded message: >From daemon Tue Jul 26 14:18:50 1994 From: Keith D Martin Message-Id: <9407261816.AA29595@media.mit.edu> Subject: The Frog Princess (no attribution) To: big-phun@media.mit.edu Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 14:16:27 EDT Recently sent my way (origin unknown): A computer programmer happens across a frog in the road. The frog pipes up, "I'm really a beautiful princess and if you kiss me,I'll stay with you for a week". The programmer shrugs his shoulders and puts the frog in his pocket. A few minutes later, the frog says "OK, OK, if you kiss me, I'll give you great sex for a week". The programmer nods and puts the frog back in his pocket. A few minuets later, "Turn me back into a princess and I'll give you great sex for a whole year!". The programmer smiles and walks on. Finally, the frog says, "What's wrong with you? I've promised you great sex for a year from a beautiful princess and you won't even kiss a frog?" "I'm a programmer," he replies. "I don't have time for sex.... But a talking frog is pretty neat." No sexism flames, please. -- "Announcing a product that didn't exist, developing it on the model of the best version available elsewhere, demonstrating an edition that didn't fully work, and finally releasing the product in rather buggy form after a lengthy delay: The history of BASIC was one that would repeat itself at Microsoft again and again. " - "Gates",S. Manes & P. Andrews Ronald Schmelzer, GCS/AT d? -p+ c++(+++) l++ u++ e+/* m* s n--- -f+/* g+ w+++ t++(+++) r y** [l+++ wanna be]