Reader\'s Digest Australia - 05.2019

Life’s Like That

SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE

40 | May• 2019

There’s nothing like a computer problem to make one tear

out one’s hair. As this item from 49 years ago shows,

even then, human error was often to blame.

From the Archives

NOT WORTH MUCH

My 35-year-old son and I had just
finished our meal when I realised
I’d left my wallet in my car. As
I headed out the door, I told the
waitress what had happened. “But
don’t worry,” I said with a grin. “I’m
leaving my son for collateral.”
She looked at him.

He winked at her.

She turned back to me. “What else

have you got?” GARY MARTIN

CANDLE IN THE WIND

You know you’re getting old when

you get that one candle on the cake.

It’s like, “See if you can blow this out.”

JERRY SEINFELD, COMEDIAN

M AY

1970

For students of computer programming, one of the

hardest lessons to accept is that when procedures

are followed correctly the computer will not

make a mistake. At a computer-

programming course, one

of the computer-written

instructions for the class

problems is: “Upon becoming

convinced the computer is

wrong, return to and reread the

procedure manual. You will

find out that it is not.”

RAY E. HUBNER