1/16/2004 08:23:00 AM by Rob

Nerd Season

My buddy Wigs sent this along to me today.

This truck driver hauling a tractor-trailer load of computers through California stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar he sees a big sign on the door saying "Nerds Not Allowed - Enter At Your Own Risk!" He goes in and sits down.
The bartender comes over to him, sniffs, says, "You smell kind of nerdy. What do you do for a living?"

The truck driver says, "I drive a truck. The smell could be from the computers I am hauling."

The bartender says, "Okay, truck drivers are not nerds." And serves him a beer.

As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in with tape around his glasses, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of pens and pencils, and a belt at least a foot too long. The bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the guy away.

The truck driver, totally shocked, says "Why did you do that?"

The bartender says, "Not to worry. The nerds are overpopulating Silicon Valley and are in season now. You don't even need a license."

The truck driver finishes his beer, gets back in his truck, and heads back onto the freeway. Suddenly he veers to avoid an accident, and the load shifts. The back door breaks open and computers spill out all over the freeway. He jumps out and sees a crowd already forming, grabbing up the computers. They are all engineers, accountants and programmers wearing the nerdiest clothes he has ever seen.

He can't let them steal his whole load. So, remembering what happened in the bar, he pulls out his gun and starts blasting away, felling several of them instantly. A highway patrol officer comes zooming up and jumps out of the car screaming at him to stop.

The truck driver said, "What's wrong? I thought nerds were in season."

"Well, sure," said the patrolman. "But you can't bait 'em."


Truth IS stranger than fiction

I completely made up the Greg Maddux AP article I posted on here the other day.

I figured you all knew, but I saw several comments, and even a couple of you in the Army were seemingly running with it. I felt bad...

But, as it turns out, Peter Gammons got on the Dan Patrick radio show and reported that Maddux and Boras, in fact, WERE asking for such an arrangement!

Jesus, help us all.

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