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From: avsdT:roberts@avsdS.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Me and my big mouth (Oralpedolidgy)
Message-ID: <734@avsdT.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-May-84 17:21:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: avsdT.734
Posted: Fri May 11 17:21:06 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 15-May-84 02:26:22 EDT
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Well I certainly goofed up, didn't I.

You see, John Quarterman (out there somewhere on the net),
responded to a question about rotated jokes and ROTATION(13).
Very good heartedly, he offered everyone
information on the subject by telling
us that ALL we need do is use "VNEWS".

Being the complete idiot that I am, I stupidly 
followed up with the idea that mabey not everyone 
has "VNEWS" and that some people not familiar with
"UNIX" might be getting upset trying to type "VNEWS"
at a rotated joke and getting nowhere.  Seemed logical
to me (we don't have "VNEWS").  Also that any one who
knew a few tricks on "UNIX" would know about "translate".

Of course,  I really blew it royally when I suggested
that if someone where to offer help on how to get "UNIX"
to do a job by using a certain "system call", that they
should put in a disclaimer if they were not sure if
it was available to all.

John was noted the error of my comment
and with sympathy and diplomacy wrote to me as follows:

  > To: avsdS!avsdT.roberts
  > Subject: Re: The uses of ROT13
  > From: ucbvax!ihnp4!ut-sally!jsq (John Quarterman)
  > In-Reply-To: your article
  >
  > How about supplying a little effort yourself instead of expecting
  > everything served to you on a platter?

Well, needless to say, I certainly was caught with egg
on my face.  So...
Here is a little shell_script that ALL can use to
unrotate the rotated jokes.

Just save this file, delete everything down to and
including the dotted line, and save it with a special
name of your choice.

To use it when reading news and you find a rotated joke,
when the command line is there, ie;

     4billion lines [ynq]

Just type as follows;

     4billion lines [ynq] s | special-file 13 | more

That should work just peachy dandy, and if you want to
rotate a little dirty bugger yourself, it does a bang up job.

I promise never to be such a stupid jerk again.

                    cut on dotted line
------------------------------------------------------------

case $1 in
	 1) tr a-zA-Z b-zaB-ZA;;
	 2) tr a-zA-Z c-za-bC-ZA-B;;
	 3) tr a-zA-Z d-za-cD-ZA-C;;
	 4) tr a-zA-Z e-za-dE-ZA-D;;
	 5) tr a-zA-Z f-za-eF-ZA-E;;
	 6) tr a-zA-Z g-za-fG-ZA-F;;
	 7) tr a-zA-Z h-za-gH-ZA-G;;
	 8) tr a-zA-Z i-za-hI-ZA-H;;
	 9) tr a-zA-Z j-za-iJ-ZA-I;;
	10) tr a-zA-Z k-za-jK-ZA-J;;
	11) tr a-zA-Z l-za-kL-ZA-K;;
	12) tr a-zA-Z m-za-lM-ZA-L;;
	13) tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M;;
	14) tr a-zA-Z o-za-nO-ZA-N;;
	15) tr a-zA-Z p-za-oP-ZA-O;;
	16) tr a-zA-Z q-za-pQ-ZA-P;;
	17) tr a-zA-Z r-za-qR-ZA-Q;;
	18) tr a-zA-Z s-za-rS-ZA-R;;
	19) tr a-zA-Z t-za-sT-ZA-S;;
	20) tr a-zA-Z u-za-tU-ZA-T;;
	21) tr a-zA-Z v-za-uV-ZA-U;;
	22) tr a-zA-Z w-za-vW-ZA-V;;
	23) tr a-zA-Z x-za-wX-ZA-W;;
	24) tr a-zA-Z y-za-xY-ZA-X;;
	25) tr a-zA-Z za-yZA-Y;;
esac