Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Usenet - (nf) Message-ID: <5358@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 23:39:39 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5358 Posted: Fri Feb 3 23:39:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:44:14 EST Lines: 19 #R:pucc-h:-50100:uokvax:7500102:000:566 uokvax!jab Feb 1 21:24:00 1984 /***** uokvax:net.jokes / pucc-h!aeq / 6:59 pm Jan 30, 1984 */ What do you call a head crash at a Usenet backbone site? A slipped disk. /* ---------- */ Sad. George Goble (pur-ee wizard of old, is he still there?) would talk about students who had gone into the "hacker" stage of computing, where they would spend their nights in the Unix user areas. He said that they had "terminal illness". Jeff Bowles (I could tell you about professor at OU (University of Oklahoma) who would talk about wanting to see a head crash, with the shiny platters and ... Naw.)