Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!royt From: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: odd company names (offensive to blue chips - no rot) Message-ID: <532@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 01:13:54 EDT Article-I.D.: gitpyr.532 Posted: Thu Jul 4 01:13:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:16:37 EDT References: <335@npois.UUCP> <25000011@siemens.UUCP> <804@oddjob.UUCP> <15174@watmath.UUCP> <15188@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 45 Summary: In article <15188@watmath.UUCP> csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club) writes: >>>> >>>>And let's not forget that great manufacturer of shitty computers: >>>> >>>> I B.M. >>> >>> You mean Itty Bitty Machines? >> >>Or my favorites: >> Idiots Become Managers, >> I've Been Moved, >> Impractical But Marketable... >> > >Come on now, let's call a spade a spade... > >Intergalactic Brotherhood of Motherf***ers > >Gilles Dignard >University of Waterloo >Waterloo, Ontario C'mon, this is starting to look like net.flames! I worked for Big Blue, and highly resent not the joke, but the sentiment behind it. And I thought Canadians were polite, nice people... Obligatory joke: IBM = International Big Mother = International Brotherhood of Magicians = Institute of Black Magic DEC = Delayed Error Correction = Data Electronically Corrupted -- The above opinions aren't necessarily those of etc, etc...but they should be!! Roy Turner (a transplanted Kentucky hillbilly) School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!royt