The Prototype Machine
There was a manager, a designer, an engineer and a hacker standing around a nonfunctional prototype machine one day.
The manager looked at it and said: "Oh woe is me! I am undone! The design must be wrong!"
Then the designer stepped in and said: "Woe is me! The design is correct! The assembly is in error!"
The engineer commented "Woe is me! It should work but it doesn't! It must be an IT problem!"
Then the hacker bent over and switched the prototype machine on.
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Comments
I was a little worse for the wear when I wrote this.
At the time I thought it was original - later I remembered all the other IT jokes I'd heard - but I still "invented it" on the spur of the moment.
This joke was based on memories of personal experiences that were sparked off by the previous post - about EPoS and Smartcards.
If I can find the time and energy I might blog other "odd" experiences I've had with jokes and ask some questions about "joke propogation".
Methinks - "it steam engines when it come steam engine time"
Posted by: drk | February 3, 2006 6:54 PM