[854] in Humor
HUMOR: From the AIR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed May 3 13:42:35 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 13:34:55 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 18:44:18 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Mike Olson <mao@illustra.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 94 15:44:31 -0800
From: The Annals of Improbable Research <marca@MIT.EDU>
"Book Review: The Nairobi Telephone Directory," by Tim Healey. This
reference work has been deliberately constructed so as to encourage the
contemplative life. Some, but by no means all, names are listed by
forename rather than surname. Alphabetical order is enhanced in new ways
(A,B,C,D,E,S,E,M,E,F,G,...). The Classified Section headings invoke long
chains of "see also" references, often ending with nonexistent sections.
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Slide Rule Surprise
We have obtained a stash of genuine 12" slide rules. They are logarithmic
in nature. They can be ordered via email (mitshop@mit.edu) or telephone
(617-253-4462). The price is $19.95 plus $4.50 shipping/handling. The
primary use of this instrument is to produce the following speech from
your father, the engineer:
"When I was your age, we didn't have one of them fancy-ass computers,
we had to do all the calculations by hand, and I'll bet you don't even
know what the square root of 369.72 is, but I can find it using this
here stick, you see, now how was it these things worked anyway, you
are supposed to line up, uh, something and something else, uh, well,
we were real engineers back then, I tell you."
Don't say you weren't warned.
