! X-NEWS: spcvxb comp.os.vms: 13492 I Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 13.10.90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu M Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!uupsi!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!RML2.SRI.COM!RIC  Newsgroups: comp.os.vms  Subject: joke time/ Message-ID: <667756791.563545.RIC@RML2.SRI.COM> ( From: RIC@RML2.SRI.COM (Ric Steinberger) Date: 28 Feb 91 15:59:51 GMT" Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet	 Lines: 43   B This is from rec.humor.funny.  There are probably many variations.      8          IBM and DEC decided to have a boat race, on theA          Thames, following the famous Oxford vs Cambridge course. 	           F          Both teams practiced hard, and came the big day, they were as           ready as they could be.	                     IBM won by a mile.   G          Afterwards, the DEC team were very downhearted, and a decision C          was made that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be @          found, so a working party was set up to investigate and          report.	           F          Well, they had everybody on the working party, Sales, SystemsC          Engineering, Marketing, Customer Education, Field Service, @          the whole lot, and after 3 months they came up with theD          answer, and the working party co-ordinator gave his summary          presentation.	           B          "The problem was", he said, "that IBM had 8 people rowing=          and 1 steering, whereas we had 1 person rowing and 8           steering." 
           E          The working party was then asked to go away and come up with E          a plan to prevent a recurrence the following year, for DEC's C          pride had been damaged, and another defeat was not wanted. 	           E          2 months later, the working party had worked out a plan, and ?          the coordinator gave his (customarily brief) summary--                 1          "The guy rowing has got to work harder"       -ric steinberger   ------- 