I once knew a police officer in New Orleans, Detective Sergeant (Homicide and Vice) who had a standing bet of $100 that he could say the punch line to any dirty joke anyone told him before the teller got to the punch line. And that he could tell more dirty limericks than any challenger. I never saw him lose. ever.
Most of what I know I learned from him (and from Isaac Asimov's Dirty Limerick book). I once spent ten hours in a car with him travelling from New Orleans to Savannah Georgia and he had me beat after half an hour, and he kept on for the whole trip. If this happens and I come, I'm bringing him and backing him. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton Be!' and all was light." - Alexander Pope "It did not last; the Devil howling 'Ho! Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo." - John Collings Squire "God Rolled his dice, to Einstein's great dismay: 'Let Feynman Be!' and all was clear as day." - Jagdish Mehra Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph. D. VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Adam Thornton > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2004 11:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: BayBunch this Friday, May 5 in Mountain View CA > > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 13:16, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > A Pac-10 education is equally good. > > How much you wanna bet? > > Case of beer, maximum value $50? > > We need an appropriate venue, of course. I would suggest that it be a > roundtable--kept amply supplied with alcohol, of course--with an ante of > $50/number-of-competitors (we can raise this, of course, if people > want). Play proceeds clockwise around the table; anyone who cannot come > up with a limerick when it is his or her turn is out of the game. > Repeat until there's only one person left. Winner takes all. > > Now: when and where becomes the question. > > Adam > >
