---
title: "BillG Joke"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/12/billg-joke.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/12/billg-joke.html"
published: "2003-06-12T05:15:00"
updated: "2003-06-12T05:15:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a good one I heared: Bill Gates goes fishing. Suddently he notices he catches somehting. When he rolls in his catch, he sees a gold fish on the hook. The fish suddenly opens its mouth and says \" Hey bill, how…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# BillG Joke

By Roy Osherove June 12, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 12, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Here's a good one I heared:

Bill Gates goes fishing. Suddently he notices he catches somehting. When he rolls in his catch, he sees a gold fish on the hook.

The fish suddenly opens its mouth and says "_Hey bill, how about making a wish?_"

Bill thinks for a minute and replies "_OK. But you get only one._"

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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