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HUMOR: MIT 6.001 Spellbook

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Jan 19 11:26:16 1996

To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:58:52 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>


Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:58:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 10:05:02 -0500
From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Subject: MIT 6.001 Spellbook
Forwarded-by: gknauth@BBN.COM

* <http://fishwrap.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1992/spellbook/...
	...spellbook_inside_text.html>

Cause Light Wounds
	I call upon chaos to cause unbalanced parentheses.

Darkness
	I summon the darkness of night to hide all free machines.

Cause Wounds
	I call upon the forces of chaos to crash your server.

Call Undead
	I call all environment pointers to this very spot.

Cause Disease
	I call upon the powers of chaos to mutate your pointers.

Lie
	I call upon chaos to make your debugger lie.

Cause Serious Wounds
	I call upon the powers of chaos to cause recursive bugs.

Control Undead
	By death's dark mantle and the powers of chaos, I control
	environment pointers to do my bid.

Unbind
	By the powers of chaos, I unbind all variables.

Poison
	I call upon chaos, decay, and rot to panic your process.

Cause Critical Wounds
	I call upon chaos itself to cause fatal errors.

Create Undead
	By the powers of chaos, I create environment pointers.

Wither
	I call upon the powers of darkness to wither your abstractions.

Curse
	I curse your code to forever underflow the stack.

Obfuscate
	I call upon chaos to obfuscate your abstractions.

Waste
	By the powers of darkness, I command you to waste your time
	optimizing useless abstractions.

Quest
	By the powers of chaos, I quest you on this problem set.

Death
	I grant you the gift of repeating 6.001.


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