Amusing Texts
Here are some amusing stories/lists I've received in my mailbox:
Creation
The Creation
Computer creation of Life.
Creation
Help
From an airline reservation office.
WHAT IF PEOPLE BOUGHT CARS LIKE THEY BUY
COMPUTERS?
Tech support anecdotes.
Kids
Imitating "Deep Thoughts"
Little kids talk about love
What exactly is marriage?
Language
English as revised by the EU
Geekonics
List
You know you're asian if...
The Bible revised by college
students
Computers are male; compilers
are female.
25 Thoughts to get you Through
Almost Any Crisis
50+ Ways to get of of Blind
Dates
What people with degrees do.
Top 20 Reasons Why Dogs Don't
Use Computers
50 Fun Things to Do in an
Elevator
Excuses for missing work
Excuses for missing school
Daily exercise for the non-athletic
Top six reasons computers must be female
US Forest Service Comments
The Wonder of Friends
A Glossary of English/German Motoring Terms
Strange labels
Rita Rudner's 50 facts about men.
Unfortunately I don't have an equivalent one for women.
Things you DON'T want to hear while
on the operating room table
30 More ways to confuse your
roommate
50 Ways to Confuse, Worry, or
Just Scare the Bejeezus out of People in the Computer Lab
Spice Girls Application Form
150 Things (NOT) to do or say
at or for your Thesis Defense
Science
The thermodynamics of hell.
A letter to the Smithsonian.
Songs
Mary Had a Little Lamb
What If Dr. Seuss Did Technical
Training Manuals?
Stories
Blind airline pilots.
A guy from Bowen.
Advice for Americans in the UK
A story of infidelity.
The Darwin Awards 1996
Winner
Another Darwin Award
Winner
A story of a relationship.
From an English Class
A College Application Essay
An Engineer and His Frog
A story of a bad headache.
Law and Order: LAPD, FBI and CIA
On mistresses and wives.
A religious joke.
How not to rob a bank.
A Scottish immigrant at a baseball game.
A southerner moves up north.
An In-class English assignment.
Unix me this.
Tests (You Know You're an X if ...)
College Entrance Exam
(Jock Version)
Signs that you are too drunk.
You just might be a grad student
if:
Equation Analysis Test
Nerd Test
You might be a physics major
if ...
Comparisons
The Campus Food Chain
Software Developers vs.
Drug Dealers
A Bold New Proposal for Matching
High-technology People and Professions
Stages of Life
Somebody left a glass of milk next
to the keyboard. Reaction?
Motorcycles vs Women
A comparison of Americans,
Brits, Aussies and Canadians
Prison vs. Work
Software Versions
Software Developers vs. Drug Dealers
How to make Toast: EE vs CS
Miscellaneous
An Index of Koalas
Dan Quayle Quotes
Meditate New York Style
An Index of Smilies
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