note from my next youngest brother

[Our academic backgrounds show in that he thinks this is funny and that I understand it.]

I need some queuing theory analysis for work and ran across this page http://www2.uwindsor.ca/~hlynka/qfun.html containing this joke:

Bill Becker (of Hitachi Data Systems) sent me the following story:

I was attending a computer network performance management seminar conducted by none other than Leonard Kleinrock himself. (At the time, I had no idea who he was - this took place around 1985, or so.) He starts out his week-long intensive seminar with the statement:

"Life is a queue. You come in, hang around for a bit, get some service, then depart."

To which I commented

"Is that a closed-loop or open-ended queue?"

LK went silent and then proclaimed

"That depends on your religious philosophy."

For those who don't know, LK is a q theory founding father. You might try telling this at church or synagogue.

[The only person I can tell this to is another PhD in Physics I know at church.]