A grade school teacher was asking his pupils what their parents did for a living. “Tim, you be first. What does your mother do all day?” Tim stood up and proudly said, “She’s a doctor.” “That’s wonderful. How about you, Amy?” Amy shyly stood up, scuffed her feet and said, “My father is a mailman.” “Thank you, Amy” said the teacher. “What...

One day, in line at the company cafeteria, Jack says to Mike behind him, “My elbow hurts like hell. I guess I better see a doctor.” “Listen, you don’t have to spend that kind of money,” Mike replies. “There’s a diagnostic computer at the drugstore at the corner. Just give it a urine sample and the computer’ll tell you what’s wrong and what to do about it....

I stopped at a florist shop after work to pick up roses for my wife. As the clerk was putting the finishing touches on the bouquet, a young man burst through the door, breathlessly requesting a dozen red roses. “I’m sorry,” the clerk said. “This man just ordered our last bunch.” The desperate customer turned to me and begged, “May I please have those roses?” “What...

The AL GORE virus: causes your computer to just keep counting. The CLINTON virus: gives you a 7-inch hard drive with NO memory. The BOB DOLE (AKA: VIAGRA) virus: makes a new hard drive out of an old floppy. The LEWINSKY virus: sucks all the memory out of your computer, then e- mails everyone about what it did. The RONALD REAGAN virus: saves your data, but forgets where it is stored. The JESSE JACKSON virus:...

Top Ten Signs Your Spouse May Be Having an On-Line Affair 10. Lately she sits at the computer naked. 9. After signing off, he always has a cigarette. 8. The giant rubber inflatable disk drive. 7. In the morning, the computer screen is all fogged up. 6. He’s gotten amazingly good at typing with one hand. 5. She makes sarcastic remarks about your “software”. 4. Lipstick on the mouse. 3. During...

A computer system technician worked at a law firm. One day, in the process of reconfiguring a user’s computer, he had to log a user off and then back on. He entered her username and then asked her password to log back on. Her password was “genius”. Each time he tried it, he received a message that stated the username or password was incorrect. Knowing that the username was correct, he asked...

Three women were sitting around talking about their husbands’ performance as a lover. The first woman says “My Husband works as a marriage counselor. He always buys me flowers and candy before we make love. I like that.” The second woman says, “My husband is a motorcycle mechanic. He likes to play rough and slaps me around sometimes. I kinda like that.” The third woman just shakes...

The start of the new school term always brings out the most interesting questions for computer consultants on campus. The predominant questions this term pertain to “getting into”, E-mail and how to access the “Information Highway.” An obviously distraught student came into the consulting office yesterday complaining that his E-mail wasn’t working; his attempts to get tickets for...

A foreign language teacher was explaining to her class that, unlike their English counterparts, French nouns are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like ‘chalk’ or ‘pencil,’ she described, would have a gender association although in English these words were neutral. Confused, one student raised his hand and asked, “What gender is a computer?” The French teacher wasn’t sure...