Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!brl-adm!adm!rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Parodies Message-ID: <16182@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 15 Jun 88 20:48:32 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 82 ? From: der Mouse ? In article <16097@brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes: ? > Repeat after me: ? > We all live in a signal trampoline... ? ? All right, you asked for it. Here's my contribution. Some of you may ? know how mis-designed or mis-configured PACX systems tend to eat ? control characters (commonly ^S and ^Q)....I was walking around the ? house one day with tunes running through my head and this more or less ? fell into place for me. ? ? 1 2 3 4 ? 1 2 ? Let me tell you how it will be ? There's 1 for you, 15 for me ? 'Cause I'm the PACX MAN How about "'Cause I'm the PACX, man"? ? (Uh-uh, Mr. Ritchie...) It's "Hah hah Mr. X" And while we're doing the Beatles, here's one on "Yesterday" Leprosy All my skin is falling off of me I'm not half the man I used to be Oh how did I get Leprosy? Syphilis It all started with a little kiss Now it even hurts to take a piss Oh how did I get Syphilis? OK, you want some technical content? Here's one on "Ship of Fools", by the Grateful Dead from Mars Hotel, reissued on CD: Chip of Fools (8086 Family) Forrest Cook 1988 Sung to the Hunter-Garcia tune "Ship of Fools" Ran a C compiler, strangest I could find, Couldn't make a large array cross your segment line I won't slave to set your page, likewise learn your rules but I would slave to learn the way to halt your chip of fools Refrain () { Chip of fools, on a Pee Cee Chip of fools, snail away from me It was later than I thought when you quit compiling, Now I cannot read your core dump chip of fools } Saw your first chip sync and burn from programs that I wrote All that could not sink or source were just left there to float I won't leave you looping there but oh it makes me wild Thirty hours upon my code, so little data filed Refrain (); The bottleneck is empty as it was filled before Time there was a plenty to run that code no more Though I could not caution all, you know I still might warn a few Don't lend your code to set no flags within no chip of fools Refrain (); ? der Mouse ? ? uucp: mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp ? arpa: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 The opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement My name is in /usr/dict/words. Is yours?