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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
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> There is no necessary linkage between supplying SNs in
> card-image columns 73-80 and OCO foir JES2.
>
> Several other almost but perhaps not quite equally bizarre
> arguments for the continuing usefulness of SNs have been
> advanced during the evolution of this thread.
>
> My favorite---storm warning of a big word to come---is their
> notional usefulness in avoiding homoeoteleutera; but others
> may well have their own, different favorites.
Young monk was assigned to assist in the manual copying of the
monastery's manuscripts. He noticed that their source documents were
themselves copies, so he informed the abbot, noting that by copying from
copies they might be perpetrating errors introduced in previous
transcriptions.
"You have a point, my son," said the abbot. "I will go examine the
original manuscripts."
Several hours later, the abbot not yet having returned from the
archives, the young monk went to the archives and found the abbot,
forehead bruised from banging against the wall, sobbing and repeating,
"... they left out the letter 'R' .... they left out the letter 'R'
...."
"Forgive me, Father," the young monk interrupted, "but what does that
mean?"
"You were right, my son. They left out the letter 'R' many
transcriptions ago, and we have been repeating their error."
"But.... What is the significance of the letter 'R'?" asked the monk.
"The word was .....
"CELEBRATE!"
-jc-
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