[4569] in SIPB bug reports
Re: fortune
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 26 03:22:05 1994
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 03:21:39 -0400
To: cthomas@tree.mit.edu (Michael T. Ford)
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [4566]
> A user of olc commented that in the fortune:
>
>> Anyway, the quote:
>> "Roses are red, violets are blue; I'm schizophrenic and so am I."
>>
>> should acutally read:
>> ...I'm schizophrenic and I am too."
>>
>> Y'know, otherwise, it doesn't, like, rhyme, or something...huhhuh huhhuh...
>>
It's not supposed to rhyme. The joke is the trick ending. You're
supposed to assume the quote will end "...and so are you." But
instead, it ends "am I." After a second of thought, the reader
realizes that the schizophreniac changed personalities around the
comma, and the reader cracks up laughing so hard that he falls off his
chair.
However, thanks you for your bug report.
-Sal.
