>
> PLEASE DO NOT GOOGLE THIS ONE OR CHECK WITH
> SNOPES. THEY WILL LIE TO YOU. TRUST ME!
>
> In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a
> trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy
> young
> wife by the name of Dorothy (Dot for short). Dot Com was a comely
> woman,
> large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was
> often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham,
> her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy
> goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
>
> And Abraham did look at her as though she were
> several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How,
> dear?"
>
> And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the
> towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for
> sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The
> sale
> can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable
> (UPS)."
>
> Abraham thought long and decided he would let
> Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an
> immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price,
> without ever having to move from his tent.
>
> To prevent neighboring countries from
> overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only
> she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound
> (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and
> pictures - Hebrew to The People (HTTP).
>
> And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading
> as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called
> Nomadic
> Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land
> was
> so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of
> drums
> that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that
> enterprising
> drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker
> in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work
> only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks.
>
> And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have
> started is being taken over by others." And Abraham looked out over
> the
> Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said, "We need a
> name that reflects what we are." And Dot replied, "Young
> Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
>
> "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's
> idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.
>
> Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young
> Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started
> using
> Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside.
>
> It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide
> to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
>
> That is how it all began. And that's the truth.
> I would not make up this stuff.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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