Saturday 13 July 2019

This is The Shark







TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
Who's this one?

JOBS :
Alan Turing.
Single-handedly won World War II and, for an encore, invented the computer.
 He won't be part of the campaign though.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
Why not?

JOBS :
'Cause you just had to ask me who he was.
Can I see new shark?
I like it better than the old shark.

Sharks.

- Sharks.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
How many sharks did you go through?

- A couple.

- This is the 39th.

JOBS :
We're on the record.

Thirty-nine sharks.

Okay.

You know what's special about this shark?

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
What?

No, I'm really asking, 
because it looks exactly like the other 38 sharks to me.

JOBS :
Let me see it with the cue, from the profile.

This is cue 92-B.

This is a profile here, and this is what it looks like from the back.

And one more thing. 
It eats Pentium notebooks as a light snack.
This is the shark.
I really like it.

Nobody gets it right the first time, 
but I should have been shown this shark 15, 20 fish ago.

You probably were.

JOBS :
Lock it in.

Ten minutes.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
He killed himself by taking a bite of a poison apple... 
Alan Turing.

JOBS :
Yeah.
There should be statues of that man.
His name should be on the lips of schoolchildren.

TIME MAGAZINE GUY :
The rainbow flag apple with a bite taken out... 
That's where it came from?


JOBS :
No, we picked it off a list of friendly-sounding words.
But wouldn't it be great if that had been the story behind it?

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