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- From: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
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- Subject: God Rest Ye CS Students
- Message-ID: <n130ft@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:07:00 GMT
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- X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
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- I got this from a friend, many years ago. He got it off Usenet. Note
- that this was before *I* got on Usenet, which means it predates the
- "Great Re-naming" by at least 3 years. (Early 80's. Say 10 years ago)
-
- God Rest Ye CS Students
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- God rest ye CS students now let nothing you dismay,
- The VAX is down and won't be up until the first of May
- The program that was due this morn won't be postponed they say.
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
-
- The bearings on the disk are gone, and bits are dropping too,
- We've found a bug in C, and Pascal can't tell false from true,
- And now we find that we can't get at Berkeley's 4.2.
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
-
- And all you fans of matrix math who would use APL,
- You'd find out if the VAX were up, it wouldn't work too well,
- And if you try, then it will say that you can go to ... well...
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
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- We've just received a call from DEC, they'll send without delay
- A system they call RSX it takes nine hundred k,
- The staff committed suicide we'll bury them today.
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
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- And now more cheery news for you, the network's also dead,
- You'll have to run your programs on the IBM instead,
- The turnaround time's nineteen weeks and only cards are read.
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
-
- And now we'd like to say to you before we go away,
- We hope the news we've brought to you won't ruin your whole day,
- You've got another program due tomorrow, by the way.
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
- Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!
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- ... The one language all programmers know - PROFANITY!
- --- Blue Wave/QBBS v2.11 [NR]
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