On Jan 9, at 20:26 | Jan9, Billy wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 19:42, Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>>> Please ignore this.
>>
>> I always have problems with these types of emails. For example, if I ignore
>> it, I have in actual fact followed the instructions to the letter and in
>> doing so, cannot possibly have ignored it!
>>
>> I once had an "argument" with a college lecturer who handed out an "exam"
>> paper with 20 questions. You know the one, where you are supposed to read
>> all the questions before starting.
>>
>> Questions 1 - 19 were all decent enough and testing questions, question 20
>> simply stated "do questions 1 to 5 only".
>>
>> My argument was that in doing so, we have actually carried out 1 to 5 AND 20
>> which meant that we should have failed! Eventually, I wore him down and he
>> agreed that I was correct.
>>
>> Sometimes, I wonder if my mother and father were married at the time of my
>> conception! ;-)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Norm.
>>
> Quite right Norman, question 5 should have ended with a GOTO 20
That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended) as to why there was a
dead person in the shower surrounded by empty shampoo bottles:
1 Wet hair
2) Apply shampoo and rub in
3) Rinse
4) Repeat
The dead guy was a QL programmer.
Tony
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