Please read this...

[Jodie Zwart]

Joe Rumsey (og...@netcom.com) wrote:

: Unless of course you have a Pentium, then it equals 80.9989237, no
: more.

: Joe Rumsey is surprised no-one else has pointed this out.
: --
: "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"

yes many many many people have made that refrence. i have been getting letters
from as far as australia. what is the big deal with haveing some numbers in
your sig?
--
your humble servant (office hours 01:36-01:39)
jodie zwart

A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.

[Andrew B Stellman]

Excerpts from netnews.alt.spleen: 12-Dec-94 Re: Please read this... by
Joe Rum...@netcom.com

> Unless of course you have a Pentium, then it equals 80.9989237, no
> more.

i wish people would stop posting the same old pentium joke. it's too
easy to make pentium jokes. pentium jokes are dumb and no longer funny.
it's gotten to the point where you can't post a single number or
equation without someone saying "unless you have a pentium, in which
case it equals 31.123813".

andy

[Jay C Jachimiak]

Andrew B Stellman <ro...@CMU.EDU> wrote:
> Excerpts from netnews.alt.spleen: 13-Dec-94 Re: Please read this... by
> Jay C Jach...@panix.co

> > Of course, it wouldn't be a *single* number or equation if you
> > were using a pentium.
>
> wow, that was a really stupid joke, and it was even more forced than
> most stupid pentium jokes are. you must be a really stupid person.

I prefer to think that the fact that my jokes are more forced than
other peoples' jokes means that I'm a really *forceful* person.

Notice how I'm forcing you to keep reading this thread, even though
you hate pentium jokes!

-Jay
jay...@panix.com in NYC
the "c" rhymes with "z" and
that stands for 0.00122
Andy! Don't miss the pentium joke! -------------------^

[Joe Rumsey]

My newsreader informs me there is now a group called
"alt.jokes.pentium". I thought this should go there. Followups set
appropriately.

Rich Holmes (rsho...@hydra.syr.EDU) wrote:

>In article <oivloyW00...@andrew.cmu.edu> Andrew B Stellman <ro...@CMU.EDU> writes:

>>Excerpts from netnews.alt.spleen: 13-Dec-94 Re: Please read this... by
>>Jay C Jach...@panix.co
>>> Andrew B Stellman <ro...@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>>> > i wish people would stop posting the same old pentium joke. it's too
>>> > easy to make pentium jokes. pentium jokes are dumb and no longer funny.
>>> > it's gotten to the point where you can't post a single number or
>>> > equation without someone saying "unless you have a pentium, in which
>>> > case it equals 31.123813".
>>>
>>> Of course, it wouldn't be a *single* number or equation if you
>>> were using a pentium.
>>
>>wow, that was a really stupid joke, and it was even more forced than
>>most stupid pentium jokes are. you must be a really stupid person.
>>

>>andy

>Unless he has a Pentium, in which case he's a really s1.997433pid
>person.

[Eli the bearded]

Andy B had his non-pentium intimidate:

>Jay C Jach...@panix.co wrote:
>> Of course, it wouldn't be a *single* number or equation if you
>> were using a pentium.
>
>wow, that was a really stupid joke, and it was even more forced than
>most stupid pentium jokes are. you must be a really stupid person.

The news groups line does include alt.brain you know, Andy.
It is quite possible we are dealing with some who is
desperately trying to upgrade here. The c in jaycjay stands
for "computer", as in the simple computer brain the mice
offer Arthur Dent in _Restuarant_. In this case, I think the
computer is a '586, hence the fixation.

Elijah
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hates it when people confuse integers and floating point