This came from Dearest@aol.com in the joke BB of the Women's Center. DXSMac@aol.com ****************************************************************************** ******************* In honor of NBC and Microsoft's joint venture, I give you some of the rejected show titles and ideas for NBC's fall schedule. This Old Mainframe - Host Bob Vila revamps a Univac and shows you how you can turn an old PC into a functional doorstep or other decorative object. Name That Software - Contestants attempt to identify well-known business programs by looking at the least number of lines of code. My Three Suns - Neighbors wonder why Steve Douglas keeps three UNIX based work-stations in a suburban neighborhood. Wang Can Cook - Chef Charles Wang blends together software in an incomprehensible manner from companies he's purchased. Studio guests grudgingly pay ever higher prices for his creations. Leave it to Spindler - The Spindler tries to earn money by selling apples but finds he can't sell them for as much as he paid for them; tries to make it up in volume. Ward, June and the Board of Directors sigh. WordPerfect Strangers - Larry decides that using groupware would be a good way to meet women, but Balki's laser printer explodes ruining any chances of connectivity. Mayberry CPU - Andy discovers that his digital clock has more intelligence than Goober. Aunt Bee debugs Floyd's electronic cash register. The Honeymooners - Ralph dreams up a way to hit it rich with a 3-D word processor, but it turns out to be vaporware. Ed makes millions creating "Norton's Utilities". Mr. Rom's Neighborhood - Mr. Rom puts young ones to sleep by reading selections from various IBM documentation. Says Me Street - Muppet like forms of Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy show children how to work and play together on the information highway. Large character known as Big BlueBird is a favorite of the kids although no one really knows why.
(From the "Rest" of RHF)