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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: I need a joke.
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 08:55:37 EDT
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In article <202@proper.UUCP> judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) writes:
>>    "For services:
>>         $1.00 for time spent on the job.
>>       $999.00 for knowing which button to push.
>>     ---------
>>      $1000.00 Total Due"
>
>That's an actual story about Steinmetz.  He was called in to find a problem
                              ^^^^^^^^^
>with a mainframe...
        ^^^^^^^^^

Steinmetz founded the EE Dept. where I went to school (Union) and the 
engineering division where I worked for 6+ years (GE), so I've heard 
a lot about his accomplishments... but I was completely unaware that
he was brilliant enough to debug a machine that wouldn't exist until
at least 25 years after his death!  Wow!

AWR

Oh, yeah, a joke:  Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?