Subj : Re: Joke
To   : comp.programming
From : niklasb
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 11:57 pm

Chris Sonnack wrote:
> Peter "Shaggy" Haywood writes:
>
> > Here's how it is really meant to go.
> >
> > The wife of a computer programmer told her husband to go to the
> > store. "Pick up six franks," she said, "and if they have eggs, get a
> > dozen."
> >
> > So the husband went to the store and asked the salesman, "Do you
> > have eggs?"
> >
> > "Yes," replied the salesman, "we have eggs."
> >
> > "Okay, then," said the husband, "I'd like a dozen franks, please!"
>
> Much better.  Appeals to the literalism of programmers.  (-:
>
> A programmer joke with a similar appeal is the one about the guy
> found dead in his shower.  The Medical examiner determined that
> the guy had died of starvation!
>
> The case was very puzzling until one of the detectives, who was
> taking a night course in computer programming, noticed the
> shampoo bottle clutched in the guy's hand.  The instructions on
> the bottle read:
>
> "Lather, rinse, repeat."

I originally heard this as a blonde joke, but I think it works
better as a programmer joke.

However, just to confirm the literalism of our species, wouldn't
the shampoo eventually have run out at which point an exception
would have been thrown?

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