[2487] in Humor
TOP TEN CHANGES ON NEW, INTERACTIVE "SESAME STREET"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Nimmer)
Fri Oct 9 08:49:49 1998
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From: "Jeremy Nimmer" <mistere@MIT.EDU>
To: "'Humor Mailing List (MIT)'" <humor@MIT.EDU>,
"'Yoplait Mailing List'" <yoplait@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:49:11 -0400
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CNET Digital Dispatch:
October 8, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 40
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10. TOP TEN CHANGES ON NEW, INTERACTIVE "SESAME STREET"
Microsoft has long targeted college students as potential
customers, but now it's aiming for preschoolers. Witness the
recent plans to create an interactive version of "Sesame
Street" for WebTV:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2c4%2c27193%2c00.html?dd.cn
We can only hope to see some of the following changes:
10. The Count now says "point 0" at the end of every number.
9. All bug Muppets will now be renamed "features."
8. Oscar the Grouch now resides in the Recycle Bin. "Do you
really want to delete Oscar?"
7. Mr. Snuffleupagus sings the Microsoft sound whenever he
wakes up.
6. Sesame Street renamed TheStreet.com, inspiring a lawsuit
against Microsoft in which high-tech attorneys learn how to
share.
5. Cookie Monster is renamed Cookie Friend and sells his book,
"How to Track Who's Using Your Site for Fun and Profit" with
continuously running onscreen banner ads.
4. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera: one of these things is
not like the other...
3. Bilingual Maria replaced by DJ Jazzy Drive who speaks
COBOL, BASIC, Fortran, and Pascal.
2. Bill Gates admits that he's been doing the voice for Kermit
the Frog since 1989.
1. "Brought to you today by the number of users accessing the
show for free, divided by the number of employees creating the
back-end viewer software and selling it through online portals
at greatly reduced rates in exchange for brand recognition."
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