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In a move IBM offices are hailing as a major step in the company's ongoing worldwide telecommunications revolution, M'wana Ndeti, a member of Zaire's Bantu tribe, used an IBM global uplink network modem yesterday to crush a nut.
Ndeti, who spent twenty minutes trying to open the nut by hand, easily cracked it open by smashing it repeatedly with the powerful modem.
"I could not crush the nut by myself," said the forty-seven-year-old Ndeti, who added the savory nut to a thick, peanut-based soup minutes later. "With IBM's help, I was able to break it."
Ndeti discovered the nut-breaking, 28.8 V.34 modem yesterday, when IBM was shooting a commercial in his southwestern Zaire village. During a break in shooting, which shows African villagers eagerly teleconferencing via computer with Japanese schoolchildren, Ndeti snuck onto the set and took the modem, which he believed would serve well as a "smashing" utensil.
IBM officials were not surprised more...
M'wana Ndeti, a member of Zaire's Bantu tribe, used an IBM global uplink network modem yesterday
to crush a nut.
Ndeti, who spent 20 minutes trying to open the nut by hand, easily cracked it open by smashing it
repeatedly with the powerful modem.
"I could not crush the nut by myself," said the 47-year-old Ndeti, who added the savory nut to a
thick, peanut-based soup minutes later. "With IBM's help, I was able to break it." Ndeti discovered
the nut-breaking, 28. 8 V. 34 modem yesterday, when IBM was shooting a commercial in his southwestern
Zaire village. During a break in shooting, which shows African villagers eagerly teleconferencing via
computer with Japanese school children, Ndeti snuck onto the set and took the modem, which he
believed would serve well as a "smashing" utensil.
IBM officials were not surprised the longtime computer giant was able to provide Ndeti with practical
solutions to his more...
One day the prime minister of Zaire was invited to a
conference by the Russian prime minister.
After a long discussion about economics the Zairen
prime minister asked the Russian to take him out to a
pub to watch a game of Russian roulette.
He heard of it before but didn't know how it was
played. They walked in and to the Zairen's amazement
someone just blew their head off.
He was shoked and said to the Russian that that is not
the way to play the original roulette.
A couple of months went by and the Russian prime
minister had to visit Zaire for economical issues.
the Zairen met the Russian onces again and after long
talks the Zairen took the Russian to a game of Zairen
roulette in a rondawel(mud hut).
They walked in and the Russian was amazed when he saw
no guns and alot of black women in traditional dresses
sitting in the hut.
The Russian finally asked the Zairen how the game more...