mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (06/13/88)
In article <16097@brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: > Repeat after me: > We all live in a signal trampoline... All right, you asked for it. Here's my contribution. Some of you may know how mis-designed or mis-configured PACX systems tend to eat control characters (commonly ^S and ^Q)....I was walking around the house one day with tunes running through my head and this more or less fell into place for me. 1 2 3 4 1 2 Let me tell you how it will be There's 1 for you, 15 for me 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN Yeeaaah, I'm the PACX MAN Should two control chars seem too few Be thankful any at all get through 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN Yeeaaah, I'm the PACX MAN If you dial from home, the pacx is there I'm not happy If you blue-box in, it's in your hair with these four And hardwired lines are awfully rare lines - any So no matter what, there's a pacx right there suggestions? PACX MAN 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN Yeeaaah, I'm the PACX MAN Don't ask me why I munch those chars (Uh-uh, Mr. Ritchie...) If you don't want to connect to Mars (Uh-uh, Mr. Joy...) 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN Yeeaaah, I'm the PACX MAN And my advice for EMACS users PACX MAN Is to use vi like the rest of the lusers PACX MAN 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN Yeeaaah, I'm the PACX MAN And you're typing to no one but me... (PACX MAN...) [Reference version of TAX MAN: _Revolver_ CD, CDP 7 46441 2 (DIDX 1481)] Note the Followup-To: header. I couldn't think of a decent place to point it, since this has nothing to speak of to do with UNIX and I don't read r.m.b, r.a.p, or r.h nearly as regularly as c.w.u.... Mail is the most reliable if you want me to see your reply. der Mouse uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) (06/16/88)
? From: der Mouse <mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp> ? In article <16097@brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: ? > Repeat after me: ? > We all live in a signal trampoline... ? ? All right, you asked for it. Here's my contribution. Some of you may ? know how mis-designed or mis-configured PACX systems tend to eat ? control characters (commonly ^S and ^Q)....I was walking around the ? house one day with tunes running through my head and this more or less ? fell into place for me. ? ? 1 2 3 4 ? 1 2 ? Let me tell you how it will be ? There's 1 for you, 15 for me ? 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN How about "'Cause I'm the PACX, man"? ? (Uh-uh, Mr. Ritchie...) It's "Hah hah Mr. X" And while we're doing the Beatles, here's one on "Yesterday" Leprosy All my skin is falling off of me I'm not half the man I used to be Oh how did I get Leprosy? Syphilis It all started with a little kiss Now it even hurts to take a piss Oh how did I get Syphilis? OK, you want some technical content? Here's one on "Ship of Fools", by the Grateful Dead from Mars Hotel, reissued on CD: Chip of Fools (8086 Family) Forrest Cook 1988 Sung to the Hunter-Garcia tune "Ship of Fools" Ran a C compiler, strangest I could find, Couldn't make a large array cross your segment line I won't slave to set your page, likewise learn your rules but I would slave to learn the way to halt your chip of fools Refrain () { Chip of fools, on a Pee Cee Chip of fools, snail away from me It was later than I thought when you quit compiling, Now I cannot read your core dump chip of fools } Saw your first chip sync and burn from programs that I wrote All that could not sink or source were just left there to float I won't leave you looping there but oh it makes me wild Thirty hours upon my code, so little data filed Refrain (); The bottleneck is empty as it was filled before Time there was a plenty to run that code no more Though I could not caution all, you know I still might warn a few Don't lend your code to set no flags within no chip of fools Refrain (); ? der Mouse ? ? uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp ? arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 The opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement My name is in /usr/dict/words. Is yours?
gil@limbic.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) (06/17/88)
[Parodies by previous authors deleted] |>? der Mouse |>? |>? uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp |>? arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu |> |> (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> |> National Bureau of Standards |> Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 |> The opinions expressed are solely my own |> and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement |> My name is in /usr/dict/words. Is yours? Here's one that came from a friend of mine a long time ago... "Oh, PDP" (Sung to the tune of "Oh, Christmas Tree") Oh PDP, Oh PDP We know you crash consistently. Oh PDP, Oh PDP We know you crash consistently. Not only in the daytime bright But when I'm on from home at night. Oh PDP, Oh PDP We know you crash consistently. Well, it's short but cute. Hope you enjoyed it. +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | Gil Kloepfer, Jr. | Net-Address: | | ICUS Software Systems | {boulder,talcott}!icus!limbic!gil | | P.O. Box 1 | Voice-net: (516) 968-6860 | | Islip Terrace, New York 11752 | Othernet: gil@limbic.UUCP | +------------------------------------+----------------------------------------+