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.
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(*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.
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(**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.
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(***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