[plug] scrod configuration (was: firewall?? problem)

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 27 November 2002 04:17 pm, Steve Boak wrote:
> What's a 'scrod configuration'? I looked on google, and all I got was
> scrod pudding, braised scrod and broiled scrod :)

A lady was picked up from the Boston airport by a taxi. After she'd made 
herself comfortable and the cab had made good progress towards the airport 
exit, she leaned forward to the cabbie and said `Take me somewhere I can get 
scrod!'

The cabbie raised an eyebrow and said, `Madam, I've _never_ heard that word 
used in the pluperfect subjunctive before!'

Major - who spent some time in Boston - assures me that the story is probably 
true, since many MIT staff and students pick up a few extra dollars by 
moonlighting as cabbies.

Cheers; Leon