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  • Re: absent minded geeks, naughty Python

    From John Levine@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 04:21:25 2026
    According to Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>:
    (who was our company's head accountant) complained about some of the
    software engineers forgetting to cash their paychecks for up to 6
    months at a time.

    Dennis Ritchie apparently failed to cash so many paychecks that one time
    they voided all the old checks, wrote one big new one, and then had someone walk him over to the bank and be sure he deposited it.

    --
    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Peter Flass@3:633/10 to All on Sun Jan 4 08:02:21 2026
    On 1/3/26 21:21, John Levine wrote:
    According to Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>:
    (who was our company's head accountant) complained about some of the
    software engineers forgetting to cash their paychecks for up to 6
    months at a time.

    Dennis Ritchie apparently failed to cash so many paychecks that one time
    they voided all the old checks, wrote one big new one, and then had someone walk him over to the bank and be sure he deposited it.


    LOL!

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Chris Ahlstrom@3:633/10 to All on Mon Jan 5 07:04:08 2026
    Peter Flass wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    On 1/3/26 21:21, John Levine wrote:
    According to Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>:

    (who was our company's head accountant) complained about some of the
    software engineers forgetting to cash their paychecks for up to 6
    months at a time.

    Dennis Ritchie apparently failed to cash so many paychecks that one time
    they voided all the old checks, wrote one big new one, and then had someone >> walk him over to the bank and be sure he deposited it.

    LOL!

    When I worked at Triple-I (Information International Inc.) there
    was one guy who left the company, and they found a number of
    uncashed paychecks in his desk.

    --
    Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.2
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)