[1775] in Humor
HUMOR: Silicon Valley Santa
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Mon Dec 23 18:17:46 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 18:14:25 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
From: Sharon Belville <belville@MIT.EDU>
From: ericc@software.net (Eric Canja)
Subject: Silicon Valley's Santa Claus
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:07:21 -0700
Top Ten Santa Warning Signs
10. Last year, he described his sleigh as an "open transport."
This year, nobody will support it.
9. Offers to let you in on the ground floor of Wired stock.
8. Keeps peeking at a black and yellow paperback called
"Santa for Dummies."
7. Stuffs your stocking with AOL sign-up disks.
6. Hands out Tickle-Me Ellison dolls.
5. Logged on to the Internet relay chat channel "gift gab"
and hasn't been heard from since.
4. Won't touch your cookies.
3. He made his list, but he cross-linked it twice.
2. Misread something in a chat room and thought he could send
gifts as email attachments.
1. Says Christmas96 is still in beta...wait till February.
Regards,
