haynes@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Haynes) (09/20/88)
On a 4.3BSD system - %mail -u nobody No mail for nobody (which is, of course grammatically correct!)
mavery@dlag1.UUCP (Capt Mark R. Avery) (09/21/88)
From article <26159@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by haynes@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Haynes): > On a 4.3BSD system - > > %mail -u nobody > No mail for nobody > > (which is, of course grammatically correct!) Then there's always %mail -u anybody No mail for anybody (which is also grammatically correct, but likely wrong!) -- Capt Mark Avery, cbosgd!osu-cis!dsacg1!dlag1!mavery HQ, Defense Logistics Agency, Executive to DLA-DD | 202/274-6115 DLA-DE, Cameron Station, Alexandria VA 22304-6100 | AV 284-6115 (from the Internet: mavery%dlag1@daitc.arpa)
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (09/22/88)
I have never understood the confusion that I got from people the day I put "You might have mail." at the end of /etc/motd. -Ron
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/22/88)
My personal favorite is:
% Do you have a match?
No match.
--
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) (09/23/88)
My personal favorite is: $ make babies Don't know how to make babies. Paul De Bra.
lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) (09/23/88)
One joke that got a lot of laughs here was to change a users PS1 prompt while they were logged in by adb'ing their shell process. This is a good way to learn about the UNIX(tm) operating system! I used this ksh alias once on someone, took a month for them to figure out what was going on: alias ls='echo "sh: ls: not found" ; unalias ls' On a UNIX PDP 11/70 system I mounted a floppy disk on a users home directory, boy they got very anxious very fast! -- Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM
friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (09/24/88)
In article <1293@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: > One joke that got a lot of laughs here was to change a users PS1 > prompt while they were logged in by adb'ing their shell process. > This is a good way to learn about the UNIX(tm) operating system! Related indirectly: one of my customers has a couple of programmers working on various systems, and one individual cannot seem to test his programs very well -- the whole DP staff knows what a core dump means. Instead of the normal message: Memory fault - core dumped we patched the shell to say Rogers fault - core dumped Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl ------[I'm on vacation in Ohio from 26-Sep to 10-Oct 1988]----------
ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) (09/25/88)
One of my favorites is: $ ar t god ar: god does not exist I also like (csh only): % Got a light? No match. -- -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@kenobi.cts.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, ...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com
eric@hi.unm.edu (Eric Engquist [CoE]) (09/29/88)
Try % ^Nutra-sweet Bad substitute.
armstron@unm-la.UUCP (AIDE Brant Armstrong) (10/02/88)
In article <23645@hi.unm.edu> eric@hi.unm.edu (Eric Engquist [CoE]) writes: >Try >% ^Nutra-sweet >Bad substitute. Script started on Sat Oct 1 11:16:15 1988 unm-la% unm-la%^Nutra-sweet Modifier failed. unm-la%exit unm-la% script done on Sat Oct 1 11:17:25 1988 Cute, but unm-la doesn't have this special feature like hi.unm does. :-( Brant Armstrong armstron@unm-la{.lanl.gov}
tvf@bmt.UUCP (Thomas V. Frauenhofer) (10/05/88)
How about this one (I call it "How computers work"): % rhyme rhyme: Command not found. % reason reason: Command not found. Get it? ---- Tom Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!kodak!bmt!tvf BLOOM: You can't kill the actors! They're human beings! BIALYSTOCK: Oh yeah? You ever eat with one? -- Tom Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!kodak!bmt!tvf BLOOM: You can't kill the actors! They're human beings! BIALYSTOCK: Oh yeah? You ever eat with one?
casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) (10/05/88)
Can we get this moved to rec.humor.inane? No smiley face.
gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz ) (10/06/88)
casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) writes: > Can we get this moved to rec.humor.inane? No smiley face. >---------- Agreed. Hey all you out there! This has been going on for months now. If you have an entry for this, it either isn't funny, or we have already seen it! -gp"enough already"h