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From: don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins)
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Subject: Double Bucky
Summary: As the Quux sings...
Keywords: Shift Control Meta Super Hyper CokeBottle
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Date: 20 Dec 89 09:18:03 GMT
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	Double Bucky
	(Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")	

	Double bucky, you're the one!
	You make my keyboard lots of fun
	  Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
	(Vo-vo-de-o!)
	Control and Meta side by side,
	Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
	  Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs,
		   plus a few!
	    Oh,
	    I sure wish that I
	    Had a couple of
  	        bits more!
	    Perhaps a
	    Set of pedals to
	    Make the number of
	        Bits four:
	    Double double bucky!
	Double bucky, left and right
	OR'd together, outta sight!
	    Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
	    Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
	    Double bucky, I'd like a whole
	        word of you!

	(C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.

	(For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits"
	comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who
	suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36
	bit machines for use by screen editors.)