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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1016.0. "Correlation between humor and technical skills?" by JIT081::DIAMOND (It's been a lovely recession.) Tue Nov 17 1992 00:38

    I once heard rumor of a study showing that the best punsters were also
    the best programmers.  I wasn't sure whether to believe it or not.
    
    However, now we seem to have obtained some evidence to support that
    conclusion.  Although SERPs and TFSOs have disposed of only a fraction
    of our digits, they have clearly had a disproportionate effect on the
    number of famous, respected, competent engineers.  Simultaneously, this
    conference has undergone a disproportionate decrease in joyful content.
    
    Any agreements?  Disagreements?
    
    -- Norman Diamond
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1016.1A pun in the oven gets done!PASTIS::MONAHANhumanity is a trojan horseTue Nov 17 1992 02:445
    	Could it be that punsters (or contributors to this conference) are
    being discriminated against? Abuse of puns or punning abuse is
    dangerous for your job? Do we need badges saying "Baking my puns off in
    this job", "Pundit or bandit? Who do you want in your computer
    system?". Punners Liberation Movement?  How can we fight back?
1016.2KAOFS::S_BROOKTue Nov 17 1992 06:524
Well, it would be a flagrantly puniscious use of power to lay TFSO on
the company's best punsters. 

Stuart
1016.3Reminds me of a very bright, punnacious friend from another file...RDVAX::KALIKOWthe Nattering Nabob of NoterismTue Nov 17 1992 08:1315
    ... whose P_N is "No Special Rights For Punsters!"
    
    Hmpf.  At least we should be accorded the right not to be TFSOed.
    
    Or was that "the right not to be declared SERPerfluous?"
    
    :-)
    
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