From frank@CS.Cornell.EDU Fri Jan 17 10:29:54 1997 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["2195" "Fri" "17" "January" "1997" "10:29:46" "-0500" "Frank Adelstein" "frank@cs.cornell.edu" nil "51" "Taiwanese Tycoon" "^From:" nil nil "1" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from SIMON.CS.CORNELL.EDU by wheat.tc.cornell.edu with SMTP id AA20779 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:29:52 -0500 Received: from cloyd.cs.cornell.edu (CLOYD.CS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.227.15]) by simon.cs.cornell.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/R-1.7) with ESMTP id KAA10813; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:29:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from rocky.cs.cornell.edu (ROCKY.CS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.254.183]) by cloyd.cs.cornell.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/M-1.8) with ESMTP id KAA26489; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:29:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from frank@localhost) by rocky.cs.cornell.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4/C-1.2) id KAA18628; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:29:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701171529.KAA18628@rocky.cs.cornell.edu> From: Frank Adelstein To: pierce@dtm-corp.com, james.escoe@sdrc.com, njain@microsoft.com, mowgli@sprawl.com, frank@DRI.cornell.edu Subject: Taiwanese Tycoon Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:29:46 -0500 (EST) ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- From: Diane Prox To: "'Frank Adelstein'" Subject: FW: Taiwanese Tycoon story Date: 17 Jan 97 09:42:54 EST - ---------- From: Mark.Edson@huntington.com[COMPUSERVE:>INTERNET:Mark.Edson@huntington.com] << Lots of headers and trailers removed >> Taiwanese Tycoon The beautiful secretary of the president of Chase Manhattan Bank goes to a sight-seeing tour with a very rich Taiwanese client. The client out of the blue asks her to marry him. Naturally, the secretary is quite taken aback. However, she remembers what her boss told her. Don't reject the guy outright. So, she tries to think of a way to dissuade the businessman from wanting to marry her. So, after a few minutes, the woman says to the man, "I will only marry you under three conditions. First, I want an engagement ring to be a 75 carat diamond ring, with a matching 200 carat diamond tiara." The Taiwanese man pauses for awhile. Then, he nods his head and says "No problem!! I buy. I buy." Realizing that her first condition was too easy, the woman says to the man, "I want you to build me a 100 room mansion in New York. As a vacation home, I want a chateau built in the middle of the best wine country in France." The man pauses for awhile. He whips out his cellular phone, calls some brokers in New York, then he calls some brokers in France. He looks at the woman, nods his head and says, "Okay, okay. I build, I build." Realizing that she has one last condition, the secretary knows that she'd better make this a good one. She takes her time to think and finally, she gets an idea. A sure-to-work condition. She squints her eyes, looks at the man and says, rather coldly, "Since I like sex, I want the man I marry to have a 12-inch penis." The man seems a bit disturbed. He cups his face with his hands and rests his elbows on the table. All the while, he's muttering something in Chinese. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the man shakes his head, looking real sad, says to the woman, "Okay, okay. I cut. I cut." ------- end -------