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Monday, November 17, 2003
Cyber Humour

A true story
From Sunil Sharma

A South African man is being divorced after an e-mail meant for his girlfriend went to his wife instead. Ilie van Jaarsveld meant to send the message to Rene Thompson, a co-worker. Instead it went to his wife of 30 years Betty Lou, who was said to have been shocked by the message. The message read: "I can’t stand the woman I’m married to. Rene I am more in love with you than I was with anyone in my life. Please dump your boyfriend and join me for a lifetime of joy."

Online shopping

This blonde was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When asked what she was doing, she replied that she was shopping on the Internet, and that they asked for a credit card number.

Own thinking

The businessman dragged himself home and barely made it to his chair before he dropped, exhausted. His sympathetic wife was right there with a tall cool drink and a comforting word. "You look tired," she said. "You must have had a hard day today. What happened to make you so exhausted?"

"It was terrible," her husband said, "The computer broke down and all of us had to do our own thinking."

Generation gap

An old man was once challenged by a college student who said it was impossible for his generation to understand the young ones. "You grew up in a different world," the student said. Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers, Internet..." Taking advantage or a pause in the student’s litany, the old man said, "You’re right. We didn’t have those things when we were young. We invented them."

— Culled from the Net