From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
Subject: Re: A programmer gets a part time job
Date: 1996/03/19
Date: 1996-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4imiqp$jin@ra.nrl.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.827204776@schonberg
In article <dewar.827204776@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> ger
> I was really startled to see this story appearing in prose, because
> I heard it about 13 years ago on the radio (Dick Cerry's Music Americana
> show) in the form of an Irish-American folk song entitled "Why McNulty's
> Not at Work Today". If you thought it was funny in prose, you should
> have heard it sung with an Irish lilt. I suspect that the author of
> the song may have been of the sort who wear orange on March 17th, and
> that he may have written it in the same spirit as "Who Put the Overalls
> in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder". Pass it back.
> Tom"
>
> No, no! it is MUCH older than that, and the author is a favorite of mine.
> Do people really not know these comedy routines?
Robert
Feel free to chastise or jail me for laziness or whatever.
I don't know where to begin to look.
Who wrote it?
richard
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1996-03-18 0:00 A programmer gets a part time job Richard Pitre
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1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Dave McKenna
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Richard Pitre [this message]
1996-03-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Walter B. Hollman Sr.
1996-03-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-03-20 0:00 ` Richard Pitre
1996-03-21 0:00 ` A programmer gets a part time job (Ada programmers have the time) Steve O'Shaughnessy
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