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Here's a joke I remember hearing back in the 1970s.  Does anyone know who
originated it?

  An architect, a hooker and a programmer were talking one evening, and
  somehow, the discussion turned to which profession was the oldest.

  "Come on, you guys!  Everyone knows mine is the oldest profession,"
  said the hooker.

  "Ah," said the architect, "but before your profession existed, there
  had to be people, and who was there before people?"

  "What are you getting at, God?"  The hooker asked.

  "And was He not the divine architect of the universe?" The architect
  asked, looking smug.

  The programmer had been silent, but now he spoke up.  "And before God
  took on himself the role of an architect, what was there?"

  "Darkness and chaos," the hooker said.

  "And who do you think created chaos?" the programmer said.

I think there was once a system called CHAOS (an operating system, judging
by the trailing OS), and of course, this joke alludes more literally to the
role of programmers in creating chaos.

  				Doug Jones
  				jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu