>In 2010, a COBOL programmer developed a rare fatal disease for which there was no known cure. The programmer was cryogenically frozen, to be revived when a cure had been found.
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>In the year 9999, the programmer is revived. When he wakes up, he asks the doctors what year it is, and when they tell him, he asks if they finally found a cure for his disease. They answered, "We're sorry, but no, we still haven't found a cure. But it's almost the year 10,000, you see, and you know COBOL..."

I never learned COBOL but, as someone who actually enjoys maintenance programming, I wish I did. There seem to be a fair amount of jobs still available and a dwindling pool of programmers (us old farts) to fill them.