From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!pyuxcc!djj
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: But can we laugh at ourselves?
Article-I.D.: pyuxcc.222
Posted: Mon Jun  7 15:05:43 1982
Received: Tue Jun  8 02:59:30 1982

A computer hacker was driving down the road dreaming of his latest bug fix
on UNIX 4.0 and not really paying attention to where he was going.
He failed to see Joe Smooth in his new Camaro and proceeded to smash
his beat-up Pinto into the rear of Joe's Camaro.
Needless to say, Joe was quite pissed!!
He jumped from the ruins of his Camaro and grabbed the hacker by the throat.
He took the hacker to the curb, drew a small circle on the cement, and
set the hacker in it.  He warned the hacker not to move and returned to his
car.  He took out a sledge hammer and proceeded to destroy the Pinto with
heavy, shattering blows.  He looked at the hacker and was surprised to see
that he was grinning from ear-to-ear.

   "What are you so happy about?  I just destroyed your car.", said Joe.

   The hacker replied, "While you weren't looking, I jumped out of the
                        circle *three* times!"