Article 2655 of rec.humor.funny:
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 19:30:04 EDT
From: miner@tc.pw.com (Stephen E. Miner)
Subject: Computer Bowl question
Relayed-From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst)
**The highlight** of the annual Computer Bowl occurred when Bill
Gates, who was a judge, posed the following question to the
contestants:
"What contest, held via Usenet, is dedicated to examples of weird,
obscure, bizarre, and really bad programming?"
After a moment of silence, Jean-Louis Gassee (ex-honcho at Apple)
hit his buzzer and answered "Windows."
Mr. Bill's expression was, in the words of one who was there,
"classic."
{ed I was there and it was indeed a fine expression. Note however, that
he does get the last laugh. The real contest is the Obfuscated C one.
Other highlights included when Gates, as a panelist, was asked to name
the three OSs first offered with the PC, and almost got one wrong.
(He said MS-DOS instead of PC-DOS.)}
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rec.humor.funny (moderated) #4994
Subject: That might be true...
From: LFrench106@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 14 01:20:02 MDT 1997
Heard from a friend, upon hearing of a bug in Netscape that allows a website
opperator to read the contents of a loged on users hard drive.
"That's why I use Netscape: if this bug was on Microsoft, the bug would allow
them to write to my drive as well."
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Article 7510 of alt.humor.best-of-usenet:
Subject: MicroSoft ad funny
From: rreeves@boris.ucdavis.edu (Robert Reeves)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.commercials
I don't know how many of you got this via Don Crabb's newsletter for
computer news+gossip, but thought it might be worth passing along here
between psychic posts....
[quote]
>WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY?<
According to Gary Hawkey, the answer to the above question is simple,
"Straight to hell, apparently."
It seems that Mr. Hawkey was transfixed before his TV the other day,
watching a scintillating Microsoft commercial.
The commercial began with "sublime choral music drift[ing] through the
background as the unseen [computer] user surfs through the Internet and
various Microsoft content using Internet Explorer."
Aaah, virtual bliss!
Sounds tame and even cool, so far. But wait, as they say on TV, there's
more!!!
The commercial closes with the Microsoft slogan 'Where do you want to go
today?' and a final, furious blast of music. It's a very cool effect. But
if you dig a little deeper....
As it turns out, the background music is the 'Dies Irae' of Mozart's
'Requiem Mass.' And the words of the final blast of music which
accompanies 'Where do you want to go today?' are actually 'confutatis
maledictis, flammis acribus addictis...'
For those of us not up on our Latin, or who can't find our Wheelock Latin
dictionaries, Mr. Hawkey supplies the English translation:
" 'When the damned are confounded, and consigned to sharp flames...';which
describes exactly where I want to go today," he notes, treble clef firmly
in cheek.
Unfortunately, while [Internet] Explorer will take you to hell
for free, the upgrade to purgatory is pretty steep."
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geocities.com/hanson_c)