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Monday, July 1, 2002
Cyber Humour

How to tell you're an e-mail junkie
From Sunil Sharma

1. You wake up at 3 am to go the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

2. You name your children Eudora, Aol and Dotcom.

3. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

4. You spend half of the plane ride with your laptop on your lap... and your child in the overhead compartment.

5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.

6. You start using smileys in your snail mail.

7. You refer going to the bathroom as downloading.

8. You check your mail. It says "no new messages". So you check it again.

9. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.

10. You tell the cab driver you live at: http://1000.edison.garden/ house/brick.html

11. After reading this message, you immediately e-mail it to a friend.

The talking frog

A boy was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The boy took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do anything you want." Again the boy took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally the frog asked, "What is it? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess that I'll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"

The boy said, "Look, I'm a computer programmer. I don't have time for girlfriends but a talking frog is really cool."

(Culled from the Net)