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Who Wants to Marry a Software Engineer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Thu Jul 13 11:31:27 2000
From: "Lucien Van Elsen" <lucien@alum.mit.edu>
To: <humor@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:20:34 -0400
Who Wants to Marry a Software Engineer? (fwd)Hot on the heels of the success
of the show, "Who Wants to Marry a
Multi-Millionaire?", welcome to Silicon Valley's newest game show,
"Who Wants to Marry a Software Engineer?".
Here's your contestant questionnaire ...
1) What quality do you value most in your partner?
a) A sense of humor.
b) Emotional maturity.
c) High bandwidth.
2) When you get home at the end of the day, you like to:
a) Turn on the Silicon Valley Business report, and eat
dinner.
b) Hook up to your ISP, and check out the hit count on
your web page.
c) Recharge your cell phone, laptop, and wireless modem,
change batteries on your pager, and resynch your Palm
Pilot with your home computer.
3) Your ideal partner is:
a) Interesting and attractive.
b) Emotionally mature and understanding.
c) Extensible and polymorphic.
4) In spiritually difficult times, you often turn to:
a) Dilbert.
b) Kernighan and Ritchie.
c) C++
5) If you go over to your partner's place and think its a mess,
you would:
a) Complain to him/her, and tell them to tidy up.
b) Call a maid service.
c) "make clean"
6) What kind of car would you like to buy next, and why?
a) A BMW, because people will see that I am rich and
successful.
b) A Jeep, because it's youthful, rugged, and won't break
down.
c) A Honda, because you can hack the engine control
computer for more horsepower.
7) Name the 4 essential food groups:
a) Fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy.
b) Coffee, chocolate, takeout, ice cream.
c) rec.food.cooking, rec.food.veg, ba.food,
alt.food.chocolate
8) You like to travel with your partner because:
a) You share new experiences together.
b) You learn about each other in different situations.
c) You get more use out of your wireless modem.
9) How would you describe your attitude towards religion?
a) "I'm not particularly religious."
b) "I believe in emacs, but can use vi."
c) "I think emacs can be configured as a full IDE."
10) You think a relationship is ready for a permanent commitment
when:
a) You've successfully struggled through several years of
good and bad times.
b) You're already living together, so you might as well
tie the knot.
c) You finally got your local network configured just
right.
11) If you and your partner got married, you would want to:
a) Keep your last name.
b) Change your last name.
c) Combine your names with a hyphen.
d) Combine your names with an underscore and add ".com"
12) You and your partner think it's time to have children when:
a) Your stock options are vested.
b) You've agreed on the requirements and design.
c) You've come up with a good naming convention.
d) You really understand the use of multiple inheritance.
