From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 1 04:57:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA07128 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA07123 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 04:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yrLVj-0000lI-00; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:57:16 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id MAA02196 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:57:02 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06267; Wed, 1 Jul 98 12:57:00 BST Message-Id: <359A2400.92490C4C@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 12:56:48 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why did the chicken cross the road? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following has been doing the rounds at work, but is lacking 3 obvious entries - The UNIX chicken, the Linux chicken, and , of course, the FreeBSD chicken. Anyone got any good ideas for these? > > WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? > > > Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road ... > > C Chicken: It crosses the road without looking both ways. > > C++ Chicken: The chicken wouldn't have to cross the road, you'd simply > refer to him on the other side. > > COBOL Chicken: 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING. > IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES > THEN PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD > VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL > ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE > ELSE > GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSINGc > > Cray Chicken: Crosses faster than any other chicken, but if you don't > dip it in liquid nitrogen first, it arrives on the other side fully > cooked. > > Delphi Chicken: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on > the other side. > > G3 300 mH Chicken: It crosses twice as fast as any Pentium chicken > > Gopher Chicken: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken. > > Intel Pentium Chicken: The chicken crossed 4.9999978 times. > > Iomega Chicken: The chicken should have backed up before crossing. > > Java Chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server > will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets.) > > Lotus Chicken: Don't you *dare* try to cross the road the same way we > do! > > Mac Chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross > the road, so there's no way to tell it to. > > Microsoft Chicken (TM): It's already on both sides of the road. And it > just bought the road. > > Newton Chicken: Can't cluck, can't fly, and can't lay eggs, but you can > carry it across the road in your pocket! > > NT Chicken: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure. > > OOP Chicken: It doesn't need to cross the road, it just sends a message. > > OS/2 Chicken: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so > quiet that nobody noticed. > > OS/ 8.1 HFS+ Chicken: It had much more free space to cross. > > Quantum Logic Chicken: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on > all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your choice. > > VB Chicken: USHighways! (aChicken) > > Web Chicken: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on > running. > > Windows 95 Chicken: You see different colored feathers while it crosses, > but cook it and it still tastes like ... chicken. > > Windows 98 Chicken: It should have expected to cause a crash while > crossing. > I've thought of a couple: UNIX chicken - been crossing the road for 30 years without causing a crash Linux chicken - there's so many breeds that one is bound to get run over But I can't think of one for FreeBSD -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message