[1908] in Humor
Waka waka bang splat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 20 14:08:29 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Cc: bales@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:39:23 EST
Actually, a friend read this (or one quite similar to it) to me about
two years ago. He said it dates back to lead type days. As he's the
coach of the MIT College Bowl team, I'll take his word for it.
Look familiar, Jim? :)
-Drew
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:50:03 -0800
To: connie@interserve.com
From: Connie Kleinjans <connie@interserve.com>
From: mweston@netscape.com (Mike Weston)
The following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The original
authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary
of Grand Rapids, MI.
A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as the
proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> and , though
some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."
The text of the poem follows:
<>!*''#
^^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<>~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
