25 Sep
2011
25 Sep
'11
3:37 p.m.
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Fred Cisin wrote:
The notion of prostitution being the oldest profession annoys me. I posit
that the oldest professions in no particular order are soldier/hunter,
farmer/gatherer, chief, and magician/priest.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
It's
marketing. Putting pretty girls in the brochures is a tactic as old
as, well...
Marketing is the third oldest profession, without as much redeeming social
importance as the first two.