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   Alan Ianson:   
      
   AI> I  think  that  almost perfectly says what the author is   
   AI> trying to convey.   
      
   Being a perfectionist, I don't like that "almost" of  yours.   
   For  example,  I  had  several false starts with the initial   
   sentence:   
      
      A programmer's mother asks her son:   
      
   Ambiguous: what if her other son is a solicitor?   
      
   Our lecturer in combinatorics used to preface every  lecture   
   by  popular jokes or her own obscure verse, depending on her   
   current mood.  On of the jokes told about  three  scientists   
   on a train, whose respective vocations I forget. Let it be a   
   philospher, a mathematicial, and a statistician. Upon enter-   
   ing  Switzerland,  the statistician looks out the window and   
   exclaims:   
      
   S. : Looky! Sheep in this coutry are black.   
   Ph.: At least one sheep in this country is black.   
   M. : At least one sheep is black at least on one side.   
      
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