cim1@pyuxv.UUCP (G. Bogatko) (03/24/86)
Many moons ago, on the New York University PDP-11, there was a joke program called 'festoon'. Festoon, when fed a seed number, representing the percentage of made-up nouns, would spit out a wonderfully turgid memorandum, ready for (n/t)roff using the 'mm' macros. The output seemed to be readable, and you found yourself trying to make sense of the phrases. That's how good it was. Alas, the PDP-11 was shut down, and my contact there doesn't have any idea where the program went. Soooo, if anybody out there has a lead to the program, please post it or send me a copy. (My boss keeps bugging me for status reports). Thanks, G. B. Bogatko