Natasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> attacked the fundamentals of modern manhood with,
>Actually a late Fridays funnies.
>
>
> (I'd like to dedicate this to my boyfriend, who is living proof that
>uncontrollable compulsive
> switching of TV channels with a remote control is a testosterone
>influenced condition.)
>
>And never, under any circumstances, expect me to pick up
> anything for which "feminine hygiene product" is a euphemism.
I was cured of this. Many years ago, I had surgery for a pilonoidal
cyst. Without getting into gory details, suffice it to say is that
the normal recovery from this involves lots of bleeding, and the
standard dressing is to tape ...ummm....feminine hygiene
products...to the patient's posterior.
About 3 weeks postoperatively, I hobbled to the local drugstore,
supported by my first wife, to get more supplies. The clerk seemed a
little surprised at the number of boxes, at which point my wife
cheerfully chimed, in a trained singer's voice that carried
throughout the establishment, "oh...those are for my husband."
To this day, I tend to refer to "masculine napkins" while in her
presence. I don't complain too much, because I may need her
expertise on object oriented design.
A couple of years later, I was implementing a WAN for the US
Department of Labor, using state of the art 9600 BPS modems from
Codex (now Motorola). We negotiated what I thought was a rather good
price, but got a called from an irritated purchasing officer.
"How can you possibly spend $30,000 on these? You'd fill up boxcars!
What do you need with them in the network, anyway?"
My colleagues, Gary Desler and Ed Peters (who went on to start
Network Solutions), and I gazed at one another in utter puzzlement.
Ten Codex model whatever modems. Then the light dawned.
With a few clarifications, we established the purchasing department
thought we were ordering $30,000 worth of Kotex Modesses.
>---------
> Because I'm a man,
>
> I think what you're wearing is fine. I thought what you were
> wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine.
> With the belt or without it looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look
> fine.
The probability of a correct answer to such questions, much less "do
I look fat" is approximately that of a single answer to the best way
to solve any networking problem.
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