[971] in Humor
HUMOR: They all had Swiss Army Knives!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Wed Jul 19 17:06:04 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 17:00:11 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Sounds like my kind of party!
-Drew
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 20:16:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
The last really good party I attended, the hostess had arranged for us to
see a preview copy of a movie we'd all contributed material to, but her
VCR/projector was very crudely aligned. So the bunch of us tore it down,
matched the adjustments, and did a *proper* convergence on it before we
watched the video tape. There was a moment of acute panic on the part of the
hostess when she came back down to the screening room to see how we were
getting along, and found twenty kilobucks' worth of Home Theater System
spread all over the floor in pieces.
Hostess' Husband: "I *TOLD* you not to leave any tools out, with
this bunch in the house!"
Hostess: "I didn't! They all had Swiss Army Knives and
Little Screwdrivers!"
Hostess' Husband: "God, look at this mess. Can't they just drink
and bust things, like normal party guests?"
... The front-projection unit was at better-than-factory alignment when
we were done with it. It really was the best sixty-inch projection TV
display I'd ever seen, after it was properly degaussed, compensated, and
converged. (And our movie looked great, thank you very much.) However,
at the next party at that house, the butler requested that we check
"weapons and tools" at the door. (We ignored him.)
