Hi, Mark,

Couldn't resist the Python reference, eh?  I thought of that sketch as well, as I
read Collin's subject line.

Python rules!!  <g>

-frank

Mark Roberts wrote:

> If anyone had *really* posted the world's funniest joke we'd all be dead now.
> Unless they posted it in German, of course!
>
> ("All through the winter of '43 we had translators working, in joke-proof
> conditions, to try and produce a German version of the joke. They worked on one
> word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the joke and spent
> several weeks in hospital. But apart from that things went pretty quickly, and
> we soon had the joke by January, in a form which our troops couldn't understand
> but which the Germans could.")
>
> --
> Mark Roberts
> www.robertstech.com
> Photography and writing

--
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears
it is true." -J. Robert
Oppenheimer


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