I clipped this from a newsletter, put out by Completely Free Software.

SMILE OF THE WEEK

(contributions for this section are most welcome)

=: The Mean Painter :=

There once was a painter who was very stingy. At every opportunity he would
add turpentine to the paint, thinning it down as much as possible, thereby
cutting his costs.

One day, he was hired to paint the steeple high atop the local church. He
thinned down the paint severely for this job. "After all," he said to
himself, "nobody can really see the steeple from way down there on the ground."

So he started painting with a solution that barely covered the wood.

Just as he was finishing, the sky clouded over and a storm began to blow.
The rain and wind washed whatever paint there was off the steeple.

The painter looked at the now-unpainted steeple, and cried out: "What will
I do now?"

 From the clouds, a deep voice replied: "Re-paint, and thin no more."

[author unknown]



John

For every action, there is an equal and opposite
criticism.<*>