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)
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.
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.