This is one of many jokes and humorous articles I collected, mainly from USENET and similar
sources in the early to mid 1990s. They're really not very interesting nowadays.
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Article: 28479 of alt.folklore.computers
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From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Better dead than IBM
Message-ID: <14681@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:44:30 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Lines: 108
<sigh> I guess it's time to repost the whole list...
I Became Macintosh
I Been hipMotized
I Beg Mercy
I Believe in Marketing
I Blame Microsoft
I Bought a Macintosh
I Built a Macintosh
Icky Blue Machines
Idiotic Bull Meter
Idiots Become Managers
Idiots' Bewilderment Machines
Idiots Bought Me
Idiots, Bumblers, and Morons
Idolized By Morons
Illustrative of Bad Marketing
I'm Being Mobbedwithwhatdoesibmstandforanswers
I'm Being Moved
I'm Buying a Macintosh
Imitation Burroughs Machine
Immense Bins of Money
Immense Blue Monolith
Immense Blue Mountain
Immense Bowel Movement
Immense Bucket of Manure
Imperialism By Marketing
Impractical, But Marketable
In a Befuddled Manner
In Bleakest Mordor
In Business for Money
Incest Breeds Morons
Incompatible Business Machines
Incontinent Bowel Movement
Increasingly Becoming Moot
Incredible Bunch of Muffinheads
Incredible Bundles of Money
Incredibly Big Machine
Incredibly Big Monopoly
Incredibly Boring Machine
Incredibly Brilliant Marketing
Industry's Biggest Mistake
Inefficient But Marketable
Inept Bull Meter
Inert Blue Monoliths
Inferior But Marketable
Inherently Bogus Measurements
Insert Bug under Mask
Insidious Black Magic
Insipid Brainless Monster
Insolence Breeds Mediocrity
Installed By Masochists
Installed My Mistake
Institute of Broken Minds
Institute of Black Magic
Integrated Bad Manners
Intelligent Bull Meter
Intensely Boring Machines
Interactive Boot Machines
Intercourse Beats Masturbation
Intergalactic Brotherhood of Muthaf**kas
Internal Bowel Movement
Internal Bureaucratic Mess
International Ballistic Missiles
International Big Mother
International Big Mouth
International Brotherhood of Magicians
International Bureaucracy Merchants
International Business Machines
International Business Manipulators
Intrepid Bureaucratic Madness
Involuntary Bowel Movement
Iron Behemoth Makers
Iron Brain Masters
Italian Branch of the Mafia
Italian Business Men
It Beats Mattel
It's a Big Machine
It's a Blue Monolith
It's Backwards, Man
It's Been Malfunctioning
It's Being Mended
It's Better Manually
It's Big Money
It's Black Magic
It's Blue Magic
It's Boring Me
It's Broken, Mommy
It's Busted, Man
Itty Bitty Machines
Itty Bitty Manuals
Itty Bitty Minds
Itty Bitty Monopoly
Itty Bitty Morons
I've Been Misled
I've Been Molested
I've Been Moved
I've Been Mugged
IBM PC: I've Blown My Power Circuits.
Intel Bowel Movement / Piece of Crap
PS/2: a Piece of Shit Too
IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM.
Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
"Intel Inside" - isn't that a warning sticker?
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From: christo@bcarh803.BNR.CA (Mark Christopher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Better dead than IBM
Message-ID: <1992Aug28.203953.13089@bnr.ca>
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:39:53 GMT
References: <14681@mindlink.bc.ca>
Sender: news@bnr.ca (usenet)
Reply-To: christo@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
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In article <14681@mindlink.bc.ca>, Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie
Gibbs) writes:
|><sigh> I guess it's time to repost the whole list...
|>
... canonical ibm list deleted ...
|>
|>IBM PC: I've Blown My Power Circuits.
|> Intel Bowel Movement / Piece of Crap
|>
|>PS/2: a Piece of Shit Too
|>
|>IBM, UBM, we all BM for IBM.
|>
|>Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
|>"Intel Inside" - isn't that a warning sticker?
You only forgot a couple of entries....
MVS: Mine's Very Slow
MVS: Man vs. System
TSO: Time Spending Option
MVS/TSO: Multiple Virtual Snails/Transient Snail Option
CAD/CAM: Computer Aided Disaster/Computer Assisted Mayhem
--
Mark Christopher Bell-Northern Research christo@bnr.ca
