[3680] in Humor
Tolkien humor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Wed Jun 12 09:50:31 2002
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From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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In light of all the recent witticisms comparing Mordor to Redmond, WA,
and numerous variations of the "One $item to rule them all...." verses,
I thought I would submit the following Tolkien-related humor from long
before it was de rigeur to bash MS.
(It's pretty dated humor, in case you can't tell)
The Internet
Three Nets for the Stanford Nethax under the Quad,
Seven for the MIT Hackers in their halls of stone,
Nine for Crays doomed to die,
One for NIC on its dark DECSYSTEM-2060
In the LANs of SRI where the shadows lie.
One Internet to rule them all, One Internet to find them,
One Internet to bring them all and in the ether bind them
In the LANs of SRI where the shadows lie.
Three servers for Athena, which now runs MIT,
Nine for BARRNet, doomed to plunge into the Sea
Seven for Rutgers & JvNCNet, always a luse,
One for the NIC, to do whatever they choose.
One server to rule them, one server to find them,
One server to run them all, and with %HOSTADDR bind them,
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
Credit goes to the following URL, where you can also find a long passage
entitled
"The Tolkien Ring Network", which is too long to post on this list.
gopher://gopher.quux.org:70/0/Archives/mirrors/OBI/Nerd.Humor/Tolkien.Ring.Network%3F/MBOX-MESSAGE/1
