From: Matt Curtin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) Date: 03 Sep 1999 10:59:32 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.cis.ohio-state.edu X-Face: L"IcL.b%SDN]0Kql2b`e.}+i05V9fi\yX#H1+Xl)3!+n/3?5`%-SA-HDgPk9uTk<3dv^J5DCgal)-E{`zN#*o6F|y>r)\<>>>> On 2 Sep 1999 14:06:27 -0700, gillies@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Gillies) said: Thanks for the interesting feedback. Donald> Professors are educational entertainers. Would you expect Donald> immediate success at stand-up comedy in your first attempt ?? On the other hand, maybe it was my stand-up comic approach to the first week's material that got 'em. I: OK, how many folks have ever written anything in any Lisp dialect (Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, GUILE...)? Class: [silence] I: Hmm... Any ML programmers? Class: [silence] I: Any, uh, C programmers? Class: [Every hand waving wildly.] I: Oh boy. Hey, two strings walked into a bar... Bartender: What'll you have? String #1: I'll have a beer, please. Bartender: [Looking to String #2 ] ...and you? String #2: I'll have what he's having %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ String #1: Pardon my friend, he's not null terminated. Class: [blank stares, except for two guys howling] Oh well. :-) -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ From: Matt Curtin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) Date: 03 Sep 1999 10:59:32 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.cis.ohio-state.edu X-Face: L"IcL.b%SDN]0Kql2b`e.}+i05V9fi\yX#H1+Xl)3!+n/3?5`%-SA-HDgPk9uTk<3dv^J5DCgal)-E{`zN#*o6F|y>r)\<>>>> On 2 Sep 1999 14:06:27 -0700, gillies@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Gillies) said: Thanks for the interesting feedback. Donald> Professors are educational entertainers. Would you expect Donald> immediate success at stand-up comedy in your first attempt ?? On the other hand, maybe it was my stand-up comic approach to the first week's material that got 'em. I: OK, how many folks have ever written anything in any Lisp dialect (Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, GUILE...)? Class: [silence] I: Hmm... Any ML programmers? Class: [silence] I: Any, uh, C programmers? Class: [Every hand waving wildly.] I: Oh boy. Hey, two strings walked into a bar... Bartender: What'll you have? String #1: I'll have a beer, please. Bartender: [Looking to String #2 ] ...and you? String #2: I'll have what he's having %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ String #1: Pardon my friend, he's not null terminated. Class: [blank stares, except for two guys howling] Oh well. :-) -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ ###### From: William Hamblen Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:00:18 -0500 Lines: 6 Message-ID: <2ujpq7.fj.ln@mycomputer.invalid.us> References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: william.hamblen@nashville.com X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.6 (i586)) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!newsfeed.stanford.edu!remarQ73!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Matt Curtin wrote: : %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ How did you say this part of the story? ###### From: Luc Van der Veken Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) Organization: . Message-ID: References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:11:28 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.123.10.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pandora.be X-Trace: afrodite.telenet-ops.be 936378688 212.123.10.153 (Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:11:28 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:11:28 MET DST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!news.belnet.be!afrodite.telenet-ops.be!not-for-mail Matt Curtin posted: > I: Oh boy. Hey, two strings walked into a bar... > Bartender: What'll you have? > String #1: I'll have a beer, please. > Bartender: [Looking to String #2 ] ...and you? > String #2: I'll have what he's having %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ > String #1: Pardon my friend, he's not null terminated. > > Class: [blank stares, except for two guys howling] > > Oh well. :-) Yeah, I know the type. You're the boss, so they'll laugh at everything you say that sounds like it's a joke. And behind your back they'll say to their classmates, "Who does he think he is, Jay Leno?" ###### From: Charles Richmond Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:50:07 +0000 Organization: Cannine Computer Center Lines: 33 Message-ID: <37D088E0.48497154@plano.net> References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: richmond@plano.net X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.ntr.net!remarQ60!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Luc Van der Veken wrote: > > Matt Curtin posted: > > > I: Oh boy. Hey, two strings walked into a bar... > > Bartender: What'll you have? > > String #1: I'll have a beer, please. > > Bartender: [Looking to String #2 ] ...and you? > > String #2: I'll have what he's having %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ > > String #1: Pardon my friend, he's not null terminated. > > > > Class: [blank stares, except for two guys howling] > > > > Oh well. :-) > > Yeah, I know the type. You're the boss, so they'll laugh at > everything you say that sounds like it's a joke. > > And behind your back they'll say to their classmates, "Who does > he think he is, Jay Leno?" > Professor comes into an undergraduate class and says: "Good Morning." The students say: "Good Morning." Professor comes into a graduate class and says: "Good Morning." The students just write it down. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ ###### From: Dav_and_Frances_Vandenbroucke@compuserve.com (Dav Vandenbroucke) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 16:41:49 GMT Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Lines: 11 Message-ID: <37d147df.82158782@news.compuserve.com> References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> <37D088E0.48497154@plano.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mid-tgn-ngf-vty70.as.wcom.net X-Trace: ssauraac-i-1.production.compuserve.com 936463219 10330 216.192.77.70 (4 Sep 1999 16:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 1999 16:40:19 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!newsfeed.enteract.com!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:50:07 +0000, Charles Richmond wrote: >Professor comes into a graduate class and says: "Good Morning." > >The students just write it down. And then half of them highlight it. Dav Vandenbroucke dav_and_frances_vandenbroucke@compuserve.com ###### From: Matt Curtin Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers Date: 04 Sep 1999 14:34:20 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CD390C.83000B3F@plano.net> <010919992107075392%news001@macgeek.org> <7qmosj$2hj$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> <2ujpq7.fj.ln@mycomputer.invalid.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.cis.ohio-state.edu X-Face: L"IcL.b%SDN]0Kql2b`e.}+i05V9fi\yX#H1+Xl)3!+n/3?5`%-SA-HDgPk9uTk<3dv^J5DCgal)-E{`zN#*o6F|y>r)\<>>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:00:18 -0500, William Hamblen said: Matt> %j(8&~~ +@@@+#_2{ William> How did you say this part of the story? By making sounds that one might hear if listening to the story over MBONE... -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/ ###### Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Professors are educational entertainers (was: Re: Testing job applicants) References: <37D088E0.48497154@plano.net> <37d147df.82158782@news.compuserve.com> Organization: Plethora . Net - More net, less spam! X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test70 (17 January 1999) From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Lines: 22 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 18:45:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.166.146.8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@plethora.net X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 936470708 205.166.146.8 (Sat, 04 Sep 1999 13:45:08 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 13:45:08 CDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!ptah.visi.com!not-for-mail In article <37d147df.82158782@news.compuserve.com>, Dav Vandenbroucke wrote: >On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 02:50:07 +0000, Charles Richmond > wrote: > >>Professor comes into a graduate class and says: "Good Morning." >> >>The students just write it down. >And then half of them highlight it. Actually, a quarter of them highlight "good", and a quarter of them highlight "morning". One makes a note to research the etymology of "morning". In some cases, the etymology is actually on the final. -s -- Copyright 1999, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / seebs@plethora.net C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Will work for interesting hardware. http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/ Visit my new ISP --- More Net, Less Spam!