[1739] in Humor
HUMOR: One CD...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Thu Dec 5 09:33:38 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:24:56 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:47:04 -0800
To: connie@interserve.com
From: fiachna@netcom.com (K'Ailsa Rowan)
Forwarded, unfortunately without original author:
> Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit.
>
> As we were talking, I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows
> 95 on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system,
> and showed him the Windows 95 CD. To my surprise, he threw it into my
> microwave oven and turned the oven on.
>
> Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me,
> but my friend said, "Do not worry, it is unharmed." After a few
> minutes he took the CD out of the oven, gave it to me and said: "Take
> a close look at it."
>
> To my surprise, the CD was quite cold to hold, and seemed to be
> heavier than before. At first I could not see anything unusual, but
> on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, an
> inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The
> inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a
> great depth:
>
> 12343452K4J5H23JY6G52UKY45G365FV3L4U5H6J3456F243;I5JH437J6J4C864KJL5H6
>
> "I cannot understand the fiery letters," I said.
>
> "No, but I can," he said. "The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode,
> and the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here.
> But in common English, this is what it says:
>
> One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
> One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them..."
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