Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!looking!funny-request From: sun@ecf.toronto.edu (Kwan Leung Andy Sun) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Next time.... (The Actual Case) Keywords: computer, topical, smirk, original Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 07:20:10 GMT Lines: 41 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca From: rws3n@astsun8.astro.virginia.edu (Robert W. Spiker) >big-e# telnet >telnet> open borg.big.cube.mil >Trying 301.143.45.45 ... >Conected to borg422.big.cube.mil. > ...... >You have mail. >borg422% sleep & >[1] 1489 >borg422% ...Broadcast message at 19:02:34 from root@borg422.big.cube.mil: >System shutdown in three minutes... >borg422% >borg422% logout >Connection closed by foreign host. >big-e# > What is actually happening over in borg422.big.cube.mil: borg422% Usage: sleep time-in-seconds [1] Exit 1 sleep borg422% /usr/etc/fastboot borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < tractor_beam borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam borg422% telnet telnet> open big-e.uss.startfleet.mil network unreachable telnet> ST fans certainly don't like this alternate ending due to Data issuing a command without an argument ... Andy -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Jokes ABOUT major current events should be sent to topical@looking.on.ca Anything that is not a joke submission goes to funny-request@looking.on.ca