[1329] in Central_America
New quotes for Wed Mar 8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 8 01:57:10 1989
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 01:32:09 EST
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
Night came uninvited -- pierced through with stars.
Its dreams were separate things hanging above.
Inside things hum and whir -- no calm at all.
Sleep has no property -- I heard him call
Night came uninvited. Brutal. Unloved.
The moon crept uninvited over my sill.
To mock me with its leering unsavoury grin.
Inside I'd sweat and strain -- no calm at all.
Sleep has no property -- as I recall.
The moon came uninvited -- sallow and grim.
"Sleep Has No Property"
_Dark Adapted Eye_
Danielle Dax
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arnewman (Aaron R Newman):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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capsalad (Dave Schulman):
How did I get this beautiful house? Where did I get this
beautiful wife?
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
Ppfffthhppthh.
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cpc (Christopher P. Colby):
The gray sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand.
Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross will a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
- Robert Browning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me.
- Robert Browning
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ellis (Steve Ellis):
dilligas ?
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
Jeff Tang
not for
'91 Pres
but
Jeff Tang
for
MIT President.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Sniglet of the day:
OPHEAD
(op' hed)
v. To smash one's head against the crease of a newspaper to get it to
fold.
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jtidwell (Jenifer P Tidwell):
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
A modern-day story of Paul Revere.
He runs through the Media Lab, not through the town,
Shouting, "BACKUP YOUR FILES, LEST THE SYSTEM GO DOWN!"
Following behind, completely ignored
A grammarian's cry earnestly implored:
"No more assaults on our literacy;
BACK UP is two words, it seems clear to me!"
He halts in the hallway these words to consider
While above him the cable trays shake, creak, and skitter
He cleans up his syntax, but before he can shout
The "correct" words, it's too late: the power's gone out!
But soon it comes back; from the Garden he's hailed:
"fsck has repeatedly failed
On amt, gertie, and atrp!
So where are the backups?" "What backups?" said he.
But then the grammarian comes into view,
And shakes his head sadly. "Oh no, not you too!"
He holds up one forefinger; looking so wise,
Says, "Fsck should be capitalized!"
And now gentle reader, upon reading this stuff,
You're likely to say, "Enough is enough!"
But one yet one more lesson, a point best made clear,
UNIX, the system, is case sensitive, dear.
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mgkelley (Matthew G Kelley):
"It's over now, the Music of the Night."
"I think my favorite color is a light mauve with a little chartreuse swirl
laden with soft teal undertones. Or maybe it's blue - I'm not
quite sure." -- Curt B. Cooprider
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needle (Zanzibar B. McFate):
Reading a translation is like looking at the back of a tapestry.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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qjb (Emanuel 'Jay' Berkenbilt):
Stolen without permission from the news letter of Shaare Tikva, a
congregation near where I live:
The "Be Happy - It's Adar" Shaare Tikva Rag
"All the Purim news that causes a fit."
WAYS TO CELEBRATE PURIM
1. Get a SHU-SHAN
2. Drink HAMAN-Ashevitz wine
3. Offer Gallows wine
4. Sing the song "Estherday"
5. Recite "Let us Adar..."
6. Call someone Persian to Persian
7. Call up some famous Chamberlains--like Wilt and Richard
8. Write as many PUR jokes as you can think up
Well, I didn't think it was funny but I thought someone else might.
Oh well.
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rosencra (John R Buck):
History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man.
-"Godzilla",_Blue Oyster Cult_
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tron (Andrew H Cytron):
4
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
--- End of Central America ---
