From ppk@ilk.org Wed Mar 27 22:38:52 2002 Return-Path: Received: from fiat.kraus.ilk.org (cm-24-25-138-178.nycap.rr.com [24.25.138.178]) by daffy.dardan.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2S3cpxe026309 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:38:52 -0500 Received: from ilk.org (fiat.kraus.ilk.org [192.168.127.12]) by fiat.kraus.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA29317; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:39:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3CA29079.6040606@ilk.org> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:39:37 -0500 From: Paul Kraus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: packy@dardan.com Subject: humor Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050306020306070001080108" Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050306020306070001080108 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit humor via Charlie Richmond ... -- Paul Kraus ppk@ilk.org ---------- ----------- Publications, Albacon 2002 http://www.albacon.org/ --------------050306020306070001080108 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="No bull. (joke)" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="No bull. (joke)" Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fiat.kraus.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA26862 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:56:07 -0500 Received: from mail.alum.rpi.edu by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for ppk@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:56:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from midi.show-control.com [206.186.162.37] by alum.rpi.edu (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4F3C600F0; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 02:10:07 -0500 Received: by midi.show-control.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id A034481A6; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midi.show-control.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E432818D; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:54:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:54:18 -0800 (PST) From: Charlie Richmond To: Joke List: ; Subject: No bull. (joke) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. X-RCPT-TO: TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using Letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull. AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead. A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide. A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. A BRITISH CORPORATION: You have two cows. Both are mad. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them. A HINDU CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them. A CHINESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers. AN ISRAELI CORPORATION: So, there are these two Jewish cows, right? They open a milk factory, an ice cream store, and then sell the movie rights. They send their calves to Harvard to become doctors. So, who needs people? AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION: You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute... --------------050306020306070001080108--