This is terrible! <groan>
-- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Joke (groaner ) About IBM > > > IBM has been trying to increase market share by recruiting to > more obscure > markets for Internet access. They've even attempted to get > the monasteries > connected to the Internet. At one small monastery in France, > the monsignor, > Father Jean-Paul, was not interested in getting access to the > Internet, but > one monk, Brother William, tried to persuade him. As an additional > incentive, IBM even offered to give them free access for one year. The > Father finally agreed but only under strict conditions that > the monk would > only use the Internet for Biblical research. > > Brother William started using the Internet and became amazed > at the amount > of information available. He downloaded texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, > Biblical commentaries, and talked with people who studied the > ancient Greek > and Hebrew languages. Father Jean-Paul was impressed with the > research done > and the amount of information available, but continued to warn Brother > William about the temptations of the Internet. > > Well, Brother William continued his research, and soon he > became a bit of an > authority himself on Biblical matters. Soon, people were > e-mailing him for > information on the Bible and spiritual matters. He would answer their > questions and even set up his own "Dear Monk" web site. He > even started > sending out weekly heartwarming stories about how God was working in > people's lives. Eventually he noticed that many people kept > asking the same > questions over and over, so he created a little booklet of > frequently asked > questions about God. But now Brother William had a dilemma. > He knew that > according to human nature, people value information more if > they have to pay > for it, but he had taken a vow of poverty and did not want > any money. So, he > decided to set up charity fund for widows and orphans, and > all proceeds from > his booklets would go to charity. So Brother William setup an Internet > business where people would order one of his booklets, and he > would send it > to them after they sent a small amount of money to the charity fund. > > When Father Jean-Paul discovered what Brother William had done, he > discharged him immediately from the monastery. For it seems > that the Father > did not like his monk e-business. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
