[4020] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Jan 23
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Jan 23 01:27:41 1992
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 01:27:04 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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chiong (Chiong Zhang):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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drmorris (David R. Morrison):
To win a pair of rush tickets, by being caller #16.
So far I have been:
caller #1 - 6 times (I now wait before calling, I realize now that I can
be #1 any time I want.)
caller #3
caller #6
caller #10
caller #14
caller #15
Emperically, I've determined the radio station can buffers about
8 calls. Oh please oh please....
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
>> This involves a number of little things which I
>> will write in here (against my better judgement) as I accomplish them.
I think I've had enough of accomplishments (I've also shifted
from "doing" mode to "planning" mode again...)
Short term...
1) get a 486 box Real Soon now, to hack Linux on...
2) practice electric guitar (yes, I got one for Christmas. No, this
does *NOT* signal an imminent career change.)
3) buy more shelves for my apartment. (IKEA Road Trip!)
Long term...
1) get a machine up on the 44.193.xxx.xxx net. (Ok, *real* long
term...)
Now for my plans for the rest of you:
Ok, *stop calling me KEN already*. I can deal with strangers saying
that there is a "family resemblance" between the two of us, mostly
because people tend to see a family resemblance between any two people
with eyeglasses on. But most of you know better (this means you Ike:
I'm going to start bringing a baseball bat to dance class...)
(note also that jleah is somewhat exempt from this, as she at
least seems honestly confused.)
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enigma (CDE):
:Eponine
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius,
I don't feel any pain
A littl efall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now.
You're here. That's all I need to know.
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
:Marius
But you will live 'Ponine - dear God above,
If I could heal your wounds with words of love.
:E
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me.
:M
You would live a hundred years
If I could how you how
I won't desert you now...
:E
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close.
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.
The rain that brings you here
Is heaven blessed.
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far.
So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now.
That's all I need to know.
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain
Will make the flowers...
:M - in counterpoint
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine
You won't feel any pain
A littl efall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now.
I'm here.
I will stay with you till you are sleeping
And rain
Will make the flowers
Grow.
::Marius kisses her, then lays her body on the ground.
--Les Miserables
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mousset (Jean-Francois Mousset):
La porte du Jeff est toujours ouverte, si donc vous ne me trouvez pas loge, ce qui arrive toutefois assez souvent, n'hesitez pas a me laisser un petit message, et nous irons prendre un cafe ensemble... non mais !
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
CUTTING MISTAKES
In a 30-minute Runequest battle (Chaosium) involving 6,000 armored,
experienced warriors using Great Axes, more than 150 men will decapitate
themselves and another 600 will chop off their own arms or legs.
from Murphy's Rules
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
``I can't recall her name,
and I don't remember her face,
but the _wine_......
The _wine_ was Chambertin.''
Chambertin-Clos de B`{e}ze 1969 --- $120/bottle, if you can find it at all....
``I don't suggest that you develop a taste for Burgundies; but if you
must, I suggest you marry money.''
- Prof. Linn Hobbes
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setenv TEDPATH 253-8091:253-8400:253-7788:395-0154:393-9332
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com (Robert Bernecky)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: The Cause of Code Rot
Keywords: smirk
Date: 19 Jan 92 00:30:04 GMT
It is a well-known phenomenon that computer programs, left to themselves,
will cease to work. This is known as "Code Rot". (Programs NOT left to
themselves also cease to work. This is known as "maintenance" or
"enhancement", but is not germane to this discussion). The cause of
code rot has recently been discovered in a related discipline --
writing. The following is a quote from an article by Richard Purdy,
which appeared in the May 1988 issue of "The Journal of Wild Culture":
"
PRINT GRUB
(visus litteratum)
The North American print grub is a well-known pest infecting libraries
and bookstores. This tiny grub has a transparent, lens-like body that distorts
the print below it and gives the impression of a typographical error or
misprint(Typographical errors in this magazine {or this quote../rbe}
may be attributable to print grubs. Please check carefully). The print grub
lives on book pages and licks the ink up off the page, slowly erasing whole
lines of type as it feeds. The grub digests the gum arabic or glue contents
of the ink and defecates the pigment residue, leaving behind an unsightly
smudge.
The print grub has become a significant pest in large North American libraries,
reducing entire books to defecatory blobs. In recent years, researchers
in the Saskatchewan Bibliographic Centre have discovered marked tendencies
in the print grub's habits. For instance, statistics show a consistent
predeliction for glossy magazines. No infestation has been found in the
works of William Shakespeare, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, or Mervyn Peake,
although volumes on nearby shelves were considerably infested. It may be going
too far to suggest that print grubs are executing a type of literary
criticism; yet, the facts are undeniable."
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The vast differences in quality of code produces by different vendors may
also be explained by local infestations of print grubs. Then again, it
may not.
--
Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com.
Please! No copyrighted stuff. Also no "mouse balls," dyslexic agnostics,
Iraqi driver's ed, Administratium, strings in bar or bell-ringer jokes.
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wong (David C Wong):
To work, to work, and perhaps to dream...
--- End of Central America ---
