:-) Ok, so it isn't the first time I have embarrassed myself on the piclist
:-) I read the joke (Jinx's one) again and I got it. At least I have the
excuse that it's late here!

Sean


At 10:11 PM 8/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey Jinx,
>
>Okay, I've got too much packing to do so things are
>chaos around here.  So I won't mess with you today...
>
>The green golf ball joke is the joke itself -- it was
>the biggest (that I've seen) joke scam by thousands
>or millions across the internet about 8-10 years
>ago, when the internet was almost completely populated
>with just geeks.  The joke was that there was no joke,
>but that newbies would get on and be made fun of cause
>they did not know the joke.  Actually they were not
>made so much fun of, as they were left in the dark
>about not knowing the joke.  To date, I'm still not
>sure where it got the term "green golf ball".
>
>I remember my period of frustration when I was a
>newbie back then.
>
>Cheers,
>-Neil.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Jinx
> > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 9:53 PM
> > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [OT]: Piclist Beginners Kit (PBK) - Round 2
> >
> >
> > > That's actually not the original green golf ball joke.
> >
> > Do tell (or off-list if it's a bit grubby)
> >
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