Much Too Clever Not To Share

[L Verge]

HOW THE INTERNET BEGAN, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE:



In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?" And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"

And Dot replied, "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."

Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent. To prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP). And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.

And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that nterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks. And Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others." And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we are." And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.

Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).

That is how it all began. And that's the truth.

[HerbS]

I love nerds and geeks.Because,they dare to be different!

[LincolnMan]

And now we know the gospel truth about this. And we were giving Al Gore the credit!

[HerbS]

Didn't Gore invet the Internet?

[brtmchl]

Don't forget invented man made global warming from his Leer Jet also. But then again Love Story WAS written about him and his ex.

[LincolnMan]

Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

[brtmchl]

(03-15-2015 06:27 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

I believe that was a claim he made as Vice President.

[L Verge]

(03-15-2015 09:26 AM)brtmchl Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 06:27 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

I believe that was a claim he made as Vice President.

I believe you're right, Mike; it's ringing a bell with me. It seems he wasn't too popular among those who had to protect him either.

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(03-15-2015 11:31 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 09:26 AM)brtmchl Wrote:  

(03-15-2015 06:27 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Was Love Story really written about him? You're kidding, right?

I believe that was a claim he made as Vice President.

I believe you're right, Mike; it's ringing a bell with me. It seems he wasn't too popular among those who had to protect him either.

Oops! Here's the bell that was ringing:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— Erich Segal, author of the weeper ''Love Story,'' said today that only the emotional family baggage of the romantic hero in his novel was inspired by a young Al Gore.

Mr. Segal knocked down recent reports, based on comments by the Vice President, that Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, were the models for the young lovers in his 1970 book and the subsequent movie starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Those reports were half-true, Mr. Segal said: The character of the preppy Harvard hockey player Oliver Barrett 4th was modeled on both Mr. Gore and his college roommate, the actor Tommy Lee Jones.

But it was Mr. Jones who inspired the half of the character that was a sensitive stud, a macho athlete with the heart of a poet, Mr. Segal said. The author attributed to Mr. Gore only the character's controlling father and feeling that his family was pressuring him to follow in Dad's footsteps.

Mr. Segal said he knew the two of them at Harvard when he was on sabbatical there in 1968, and knew Mrs. Gore as well. But the character of the cool, smart-mouthed Radcliffe musician, Jenny Cavilleri, was in no way based on Mrs. Gore, Mr. Segal said, and the wild romance in the novel was not inspired by the couple.

''I did not draw a thing from Tipper,'' he said. ''I knew her only as Al's date.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/us/aut...es-a-gore-

[HerbS]

Oh yes,Tipper and Al,they were the model couple weren't they[tounge in cheek]?Al was the best embelisher I ever met!

[LincolnMan]

Interesting Love Story side-bars. I was a fan of the movie when it came out. On the other hand, my mother hated it. I haven't seen it since then (1970?)- but I probably wouldn't like myself now- lol