Title: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: happybhoy on October 27, 2006, 09:53:39 PM How to Hunt Elephants appears to be an excerpt from an article titled "Pachydermic Personnel Prediction" by Peter Olsen in the September 1989 edition of BYTE. How to Hunt Elephants Mathematicians hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left. Professors of mathematics prove the existence of at least one elephant and leave the capture of an actual elephant as an exercise for one of their graduate students. Computer scientists hunt elephants using algorithm A: 1. Go to Africa 2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope 3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately East and West. 4. During each traverse a. Catch each animal seen b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant c. Stop when a match is detected. Experienced computer programmers modify Algorithm A by placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate. Engineers hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at random, and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed elephant. Economists don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough they will hunt themselves. Statisticians hunt the first animal they see N times and call it an elephant. Consultants don't hunt elephants, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those who do. Operations research consultants can measure the correlation of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant hunting strategies, if someone else will identify the elephants. Politicians don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them. Lawyers don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around arguing about who owns the droppings. Software lawyers will claim that they own an entire herd based on the look and feel of one dropping. When the Vice President of R&D tries to hunt elephants, his staff will try to ensure that all elephants are completely prehunted before he sees them. If the VP sees a nonprehunted elephant, the staff will (1) Compliment the vice president's keen eyesight and (2) enlarge itself to prevent any recurrence. Senior managers set broad elephant hunting policy based on the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices. Quality assurance inspectors ignore the elephants and look for mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep. Salespeople don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens. Software salespeople ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant. Hardware salespeople catch rabbits, paint them gray and sell them as "desktop elephants." Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: thetank on October 27, 2006, 09:58:21 PM Economists don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough they will hunt themselves. :D Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: happybhoy on October 27, 2006, 10:05:11 PM It was the desktop elephants that got me.
Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: Royal Flush on October 27, 2006, 10:06:20 PM Fkin quality
Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: Div on October 27, 2006, 11:40:33 PM Software salespeople ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant. Never a truer phrase written. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: RED-DOG on October 27, 2006, 11:43:13 PM Last night I shot an elephant in my pyjamas, how he got in there I'll never know!
Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: happybhoy on October 27, 2006, 11:57:01 PM Q-How do you know there's an elephant in your bed.
A-He's got a big E on his pyjamas pocket Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: AndrewT on October 27, 2006, 11:57:38 PM Last night I shot an elephant in my pyjamas, how he got in there I'll never know! Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: roverthtaeh on October 28, 2006, 10:18:43 AM Every nation has to write a book about the Elephant:
The French book - The Sex Life of the Elephant The English book - Elephants I have shot on Safari The Welsh book - The Elephant and its influence on Welsh language and culture The American book - How to Make Bigger And Better Elephants The Japanese book - How to Make Smaller And Cheaper Elephants The Greek book - How to Sell Elephants for a Lot of Money The Finnish book - What Do Elephants Think about Finnish People The German book - A Short Introduction to Elephants, Vol 1-6. The Icelandic book - Defrosting an Elephant The Swiss book - Switzerland: The Country Through Which Hannibal Went With His Elephants The Canadian book - Elephants: A Federal or State Issue? The Swedish book - How to reduce your taxes with an elephant. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: RED-DOG on October 28, 2006, 10:55:25 AM Q: How do you tell if elephants have been making love on your lawn?
A: Your grass is flat, and your bin-liners are missing. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: tantrum on October 28, 2006, 11:12:20 AM too funny...
what a way to start a day. so I found a continuation to the elephant book theme: The UN sponsored a competition on which nation can produce the best book on elephants. The British submited a dry historical account "The Elephant and the British Empire." The French submited a text "The Sensuality of the Elephant -- a Personal Account." The Germans submited 47 Volumes entitled "An Elementary Introduction to the Foundation of the Science of the Elephant's Ear." The Americans submited an article from "Money" magazine: "Elephants -- the Perfect Tax Shelter for the 90s" Green-Peace submited a counter-entry "Elephants -- they're better than People" The Russians submited a terse manuscript titled "The superiority of the Soviet Elephant" And submited a poem "The Joy and Freedom Brought forth by the Soviet Elephant." But the Japanese won with their Promotional Flier "We have no Elephants but wouldn't you want to buy a Honda instead" Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: Mbuna on October 28, 2006, 11:23:33 AM Q. How do you get 4 elephants into a mini?
A 2 in the front and 2 in the back Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: roverthtaeh on October 28, 2006, 11:42:29 AM The height of ambition:
An ant climbing an elephant's leg with the intention of rape. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: Mbuna on October 28, 2006, 12:08:28 PM The Elephant 'tis a pretty bird,
It flits from bough to bough. It makes its nest in a rhubarb tree, and whistles like a cow. Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: AlrightJack on October 28, 2006, 12:34:36 PM Poker players only hunt elephants when the odds suggest a sucessful hunt, although there are some poker players for whom implied odds will sometimes justify a hunt, even though the chance of success is low.
Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: Colchester Kev on October 28, 2006, 12:59:15 PM Next thing you know, some jocks will jump on an elephants back and start playing Polo !!!
Title: Re: How To Hunt Elephants Post by: roverthtaeh on October 28, 2006, 03:26:25 PM A man went to a doctor to have his penis enlarged. Well, this particular procedure involved splicing a baby elephant's trunk onto the man's penis.
Overjoyed, the man went out with his best girl to a very fancy restaurant. After cocktails, the man's penis crept out of his pants, felt around the table, grabbed a bread roll and quickly disappeared under the tablecloth. The girl was startled and exclaimed, "What was that?". Suddenly the penis came back, took another bread roll and just as quickly disappeared. The girl was silent for a moment, then finally said, "I don't believe I saw what I think I just saw... can you do that again?" With a bit of an uncomfortable smile the man replied, "Honey, I'd like to, but I don't think my arse can take another bread roll." |