Subject: Linux and Bowling

From: "Dave Marsh"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux

As many of you have heard some Microsoft Execs are buying the PBA bowling tour. Rumor has it that Linux execs backed out of buying the PBA when the PBA wouldn't agree to their terms.

Here's some of the Linux group's demands.

• All scores would be kept in scientific notation.
• Bowler would not be allowed to bowl without first calculating for all possible factors (slip, spin, speed, time, etc,) and presenting the logic behind such calculations.
• Bowlers would not be allowed to wear matching socks or eyeglasses without masking tape wrapped around the noserest.
• If the pinsetting machine or ball return fail to work.correctly the bowlers would be required to stay up all night fixing it.
• he bowlers would be allowed to bowl for free, but parking is $75.00 per hour.
• The pins would not always fit into the pinsetting equipment, but could be made to work with a few hours of "tweaking"
• All equipment used by the bowlers would be the same as what is used now, but for some unexplained reason wouldn't always work.
• Penguin poop on the lanes is to be considered an enhancement.
• Bowlers can bowl in any way they want no matter how bizarre as long as other bowlers are informed of their new approach and are free to use it.
• Any gutter balls are to be attributed to Microsoft.

(Comment: The originator of this joke obviously didn't understand Linux too well... there's no such thing as "Linux execs" because Linux is not a company, nor owned by a company. But what the hell, it's funny anyways.)