ix222@sdccsu3.UUCP (07/18/83)
This group has lately been just plain nose-holding, buttthumping, kneeslapp'n dreadawful boring, despite the best efforts of mme mhauck & m'sieur taylor. this being unhealthy (*1) for human netters and rats (*2), i have decided to take matters into my own hands and release a dribblet of my own OS drivel (*3) that is guaranteed by the guy i stole it from (*4) to be machine readable. It is my fervent hope that this will provoke other likewise cerebral rhyming attempts that, anthologized by our local friendly site poetry editor (*5) and brought to light, may once again make reading this newsgroup a pleasure instead the exercise in excrescence hopping that it has been. ------------ (*1): recent medical surveys (**1) suggest that prolonged exposure to boring articles and poetry are a leading factor in the development of AIDS (**2) in the netnews addict. (*3): utcsstat!laura, SERIOUS crocks and bugs in news 2.10 which I dont have fixes for yet, net.news, <760@utcsstat.UUCP> (*3): IBM kicks OS. Gays who engage in Systems Programming are OSaholics (*4): Hi Tudhij! (*5): Lady Arwen, sdccsu3!za16ao. arwen is just about ready to post a formal call for hacker poetry (**3) to this group. ------------ (**1): Newficker & Aggri, American Journal of Obscure And Probably Untrue Medicine, v46, pp 69-116, 1983 (**2): Aquired Intelligence Deficiency Syndrome (***1) (**3): Good poetry only. (***2) Poetry quality will be ascertained by the judges and all decisions are final. employees of Ridiculous Enterprises and their families are all eligible and will receive preferred treatment. ------------ (***1): Wow! three levels of footnotes! (***2): Funny verse is fine. # bug report What pains others pleasures me, At home am I in Lisp or C; There i couch in ecstasy, 'Til debugger's poke i flee, Into kernel memory. In system space, system space, there shall i fare-- Inside of a VAX on a silicon square. Steve Serocki { philabs ihnp4 ucbvax};sdcsvax;sdccsu3;ix222