perlmeditation larsen The Apprentice went to Zen Master: on his face there were five red signs recalling an unfriendly hand. Zen Master smiled between himself, mentally figuring one or two possibilities.<p> "What's up, Apprentice?".<br> "I thought I've learned in the Monastery that there's always a way to do it with Perl, so I tried to use my wisdom to.... err... convincing a girl to...".<br> "Mmm... To be honest, I said that there's more than a way to do it, but sometimes there's <i>absolutely</i> no way to do it. But, how did you tried to do that?"<br> The embarassed Apprentice spoke softly...<br> "<code>perl -MBone::Easy -e 'print pickup . "\n"'</code>..."<br> The Zen Master said with a grin: "Never trust two things: [id://584|pseudo-random] number generators and sense of humour in a woman".<br> And the Apprentice gained (a bit of) Enlightenment. <p> <strong>Disclaimer</strong>: It's not my intention to offend girls in the Monastery. Zen Master's opinions do not reflect my own.