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From: dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <1991May29.172736.5929@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
Date: 29 May 91 17:27:36 GMT
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No Forth hackers out there anymore?  These are obviously tic (') and
back tic (`).

Then there's the following (lifted from the net):

> From: Tom@dupr.ocs.drexel.edu (Tom Schiavinato)
> Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
> 
> The following poem is excerpted with permission from Lee Leitner's
> "Viewpoint" column which is featured in a bimonthly periodical for
> Prime INFORMATION users called INFOCUS magazine. The original author's
> were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of
> Grand Rapids, MI.
> 
> FYI - a "wahka" is the decidedly "proper" (by popular vote) name for
> the characters ">" and "<". This is in spite of INFOCUS readers of
> Denver who still refer to them as "Norkies". The Michigan crowd
> apparently has corrupted the spelling to "waka".
> 
> To wit, it is -
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  "...a poem we think is about the lowly wahka. Maybe. Well,
>   perhaps---we're really not sure what the poem actually is
>   about. Here it goes:"
> 
>     <>!*''#
>     ^@`$$-
>     !*'$_
>     %*<>#4
>     &)../
>     |{~~SYSTEM HALTED
> 
> Transliterated:
>     Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
>     Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
>     Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
>     Percent splat waka waka number four,
>     Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
>     Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.

When is this going to be set to music?

-- 
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