This truck driver hauling a tractor-trailer load of
 computers stops for a beer.  As he approaches
 the bar he sees a big sign on the door saying:
 
 "NERDS NOT ALLOWED-ENTER AT YOUR
 OWN RISK!"
 
 He goes in and sits down. The bartender comes
 over to him, sniffs, says he smells kind of nerdy,
 asks him what he does for a living.  The truck
 driver says he drives a truck, and the smell is
 just from the computers he is hauling. The bartender
 says OK, truck drivers are not nerds, and serves
 him a beer.
 
 As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in
 with tape around his glasses, a pocket protector
 with twelve kinds of pens and pencils, and a belt
 at least a foot too long.  The bartender, without
 saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the
 guy away.
 
 The truck driver asks him why he did that.  The
 bartender said not to worry, the nerds are over-
 populating the Silicon Valley, and are in season
 now.  You don't even need a license, he said.
 
 So the truck driver finishes his beer, gets back
 in his truck, and heads back onto the freeway.
 Suddenly he veers to avoid an accident, and the
 load shifts.  The back door breaks open and
 computers spill out all over the freeway.  He
 jumps out and sees a crowd already forming,
 grabbing up the computers.  They are all engineers,
 accountants and programmers wearing the
 nerdiest clothes he has ever seen.  He can't
 let them steal his whole load.  So remembering
 what happened in the bar, he pulls out his gun
 and starts blasting away, felling several of them
 instantly.
 
 A highway patrol officer comes zooming up and
 jumps out of the car screaming at him to stop.
 The truck driver said, "What's wrong?  I thought
 nerds were in season."
 
 "Well, sure," said the patrolman, "But you can't
 bait 'em."
 
 
 From: Greg

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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