Similarities Between Santa Claus and a System Administrator


 1.  Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.

 2.  When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving
     what you want are infinitesimal.

 3.  Santa seldom answers your mail.

 4.  When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he's got,
     he says, Elves make it for me.

 5.  Santa does not care about your deadlines.

 6.  Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but
     did all the work themselves.

 7.  No one knows to whom Santa answers for his actions.

 8.  Santa laughs entirely too much.

 9.  Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME.

10.  Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his
     presence.

-- 
Michael Press
prezky@apple.com