Fun_People Archive
22 Feb
Re: Need info

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 14:28:20 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: Re:  Need info

Forwarded-by: J. Lani Herrmann <lanih@info.Berkeley.EDU>
Forwarded-by: Cal Herrmann <arminius@nature.Berkeley.EDU>
...
From: Soumen Nandy <snandy@bu.edu>
> Subject: Re:  Need info
> Newsgroups: info.nets
 
>Gerardo Suner sez:
>
>> Can you send me some info.
>
>     I'm sorry Gerardo, but according to the General Omnipotence Act
> of the Year 0000 AC <Anno Creatio>, you can't just get info like that.
> The Generally Omnipotent Deity [under the Uniform Information Monopoly Act
> of -7145 AC requires that you expend some effort towards the subject of
> your choice.
>
>     We will, of course, be very happy to sell you an INFO-NET, with which
> you can catch your own information. [Hence our name]
>
>    "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
>          Teach a man to fish, and he'll never fix that loose screen door"

© 1994 Peter Langston