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From: Richard G. Hash <rgh@shell.com>
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> [Robin Vowels]
> |   ---A _team_ *i*s* a committee!

Oh no. Committees go on forever, teams eventually conclude their business.
The fact that the Ada95 team is "done" proves they could not possibly have
been a committee.

                   The Committee 
                    =============
                  by Leslie Lipson

            Oh give me your pity!
            I'm on a committee,
            Which means that from morning to night,

            We attend and amend
            And contend and defend
            Without a conclusion in sight.

            We confer and concur,
            We defer and demur,
            And reiterate all of our thoughts.

            We revise the agenda
            With frequent addenda
            And consider a load of reports.

            We compose and propose,
            We suppose and oppose,
            And the points of procedure are fun;

            But though various notions
            Are brought up as motions,
            There's terribly little gets done.

            We resolve and absolve;
            But we never dissolve,
            Since it's out of the question for us
            To bring our committee
            To end like this ditty,
            Which stops with a period, thus.

Now that C++ group, *that's* a committee!

;-) for the humour-impaired (you would have to be really impaired).

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