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- From: sherman@wilshire.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat)
- Subject: Re: Poetry.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.080812.17821@math.ucla.edu>
- Sender: news@math.ucla.edu
- Organization: The Island of Misfit Toys
- References: <1992Nov16.043914.9654@tc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:08:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.043914.9654@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
-
- Let's deconstruct this.
- >Le Morte D' Magnus and Ketil (part 1 of 318)
-
- You mean they're gonna die soon? What a drag. And it's "La Morte", you
- bozo.
-
- >Hark! He programmeth in Many Tounges!
-
- "Tounges"? Is that the cat who could drive a coach and six?
-
- >Upon Small Crawling Machines that knoweth not
-
- "know", not "knoweth". Are you talking about nanotech, or just Wacky
- Wall-Walkers?
-
- >Of Multitasking, Flat Address Space of Thirty Two Bits,
-
- Wait... are we talking about the great plains here? Binary zip codes?
-
- >Yea! Even Page'd Memory!
-
- Ah, okay, the Encyclopedia.
-
- >Upon Large Lumbering Machines, fast as Zeus'
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- They're fast and lumbering? That's quite a trick.
-
- >Lightning itself! Spinning endless webs,
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- Nahhh... Jack Webb is dead.
-
- >Coding, Compiling, Linking, and doth Executing.
-
- "doth Executing"? Is that when Lord Vader officially kills
- somebody?
-
- >He wasteth Time! He feeds the Hungry Tract of
-
- "feedeth". "Tract"?
-
- >Shub-Internet, Eater of Mankind's Soul!
-
- No, you're thinking of MU*s.
-
- >He posteth, and flameth, and createth Bogus Groups,
-
- So do hundreds of nickel-and-dime bozos.
-
- >He Pisseth Off the Keepers of the Net.
-
- What... you mean someone's In Charge of all this? I'd better
- straighten up and fly right.
-
- >He Ranteth in Meaningless Voice!
-
- That's no big trick, I saw three guys doing this on the street
- tonight.
-
- >He is not He Who Greppeth His Name in the News Articles,
-
- Whew. I was afraid this was another cheap attempt to co-opt
- the mystique of the *ibos.
-
- >But Another. Yea! A Pair! From the northern clime,
-
- Bob and Doug MacKenzie? All right!
-
- >Far in the West. Upon fjords and majestic bluff,
-
- Hold it... there are fjords out west?
-
- >They Call the Net, Carv'd in Stone they will remain:
-
- Ahh, anybody with a modem calls the net. But they do it
- from above a fjord? How outdoorsy.
-
- >Magnus and Ketil, All chant the Foreign Name!
-
- Sounds like two obscure alchemical gizmos. But, what the hell.
-
- the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name.
- the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name. the Foreign Name.
-
- Hmmm. Somehow, I'm unsatisfied.
-
- --
- Bill Sherman S^1 `--> S^(2n+1) -->> CP^n sherman@math.ucla.edu
- Courage, men! -Doc, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", facing the
- prospect of washing before dinner
-