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  • Subject: Re: The Borg (was Year 2000)
  • From: Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 19:06:25 -0400
  • Organization: NxTrend Technology - Canada

James W. Kilgore wrote:
> 
> Neil Palmer wrote:
> >
> > HankHeath@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Retirement in not an option. The Borg (divorce lawyers) have assimilated 
>all
> > > of my savings for retirement.
> >
> > I see no reason to insult the Borg by equating them to lawyers.  ;-)
> >
> There was a 3 page eMail I received about a year ago which rumor had it
> originatted from Micro$oft where the Enterprise first encountered the
> Borg.
> Their first defense was to infect the Borg computer system with Win95.
> Just keeping up with the fixes stalled them for a while.  The next plan
> of defense was to upload the game pack to the Borg system.  That stalled
> them for a little longer.
> Just about the time when the Borg were recovering, Admiral Gates in the
> star ship Monopoly showed up with a league of warriors in pin striped
> suits declaring reports of unregistered use of software in this sector,
> the Borg were smothered in legal paper work and the Enterprise turned
> off their viewers, in disgust, stating that even the Borg didn't deserve
> that!

I remember that.  I believe the lawyers streamed out of the starship
Monopoly without space suits, proving once again that lawyers aren't
human !   :-)

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