On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:30, chuck_sterling wrote: >On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:14:23 -0300, Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote: > ><snip> > >> tests. One month later I was learning COBOL, three months later I >> was > ><snip> > >Right around Y2K there was a story about an old COBOL programmer > that was yanked out of retirement to fix the Y2K bugs in a small > mountain of legacy COBOL code, still in use since the 70's or so. > In fact there was too much work and pressure, and the old guy > opted, with all his newfound wealth, to have himself frozen into > suspended animation until Y2K was over and the constant hounding > for his services would be ended. As luck would have it, someone > dropped the ball, and for thousands of years he remained asleep, > unaware of the passage of time. When finally he was thawed and > awakened, he asked the doctor if it had worked and was it now the > year 2000. The doctor apologized and told him that he had been > forgotten and it was only a concerted search for talent that had > brought them to awaken him. They had heard he knew COBOL, and Y10K > was just around the corner... > ROTFLMAO! Best story yet! >Have a nice day... >Chuck -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
