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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
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Subject: Re: Good for a chuckle
Summary: Chuckle Lite
Keywords: narrator song cute
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Date: 11 Oct 89 07:53:53 GMT
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In article <0453.AA0453@ami-cg> cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
>While going through a bunch of old junk today, I came across something a
>friend had used with a speech synthesizer on a PDP-11 (an old Votrax from
>Federal Screw Works). The old timers have probably seen it already. Take
>the enclosed story, put it in a file called 'story', and enter the command
>
>    say -s200 -p150 -x story
>
>See if you can figure it all out.

<<< List of words that sounds familiar, deleted. >>>

>Chris Gray    usenet: {uunet,alberta}!myrias!ami-cg!cg	  CIS: 74007,1165

Gee, I hadn't thought of sending that old list of words thru the narrator.
I don't remember the first time I saw that, but I beleive that it is quite
a bit older than the Votrax.  Last time I saw it was in the Exploratorium
in Golden Gate Park.

Good for a chuckle.

A friend of mine was inspired by this passage some time ago, and so
re-wrote a fairly well known song.

Try:
	say -f -s250 -p150 -x song

Give credit to my friend Mark Wolf.  He just showed me another one today.
I'll post it it there's interest.


Bad hole limb often republish.

Hosea Kenya sea,
Bite herd aunts surely lied,
Wad soap rody rehealed,
Add debt while lied slashed cleaning.
Ooze brought strive sand brides tars,
Trudy parallel snide,
Odor imparts sweet washed
Worse soak gallon trees trimming.
Andy raw kid shred Claire,
End bobs spur stinging near,
Gape roof true denied
Dad turf lacquers tilled air.
Hosea, dust hats terse pang old
Ben Harriet waif,
Order lamb dough deaf wee,
Under hoe mauve deprave.