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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.filk
- Subject: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, variant #n where n is large
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 19:20:44 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- The following is a variant found at Georgia Tech in the 1985 time period:
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-
- God rest ICS students now
- Let nothing you dismay
- For Cyber's down and won't be up
- Until the first of May.
- The program that was due this morn
- Won't be postponed, they say.
- (chorus)
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- So CDC has been called up
- They'll send without delay
- An engineer to fix the thing
- For just three hundred K.
- John G. committed suicide
- We'll bury him today.
- (chorus)
-
- The bearings on the disks are gone
- The tapes are wobbling too
- We've found a bug in Lisp and Fortran
- Can't tell .FALSE. from .TRUE.
- And now we find that pi is really
- Oh point four oh two.
- (chorus)
-
- And now some cheery news for you
- The printer's also dead
- They're going to print the output files
- 'Way up in Boggs instead.
- The turnaround is nineteen weeks
- And the print cannot be read.
- (chorus)
-
- The network's down and OTN
- Stands watching each node fail.
- The student center's locking up
- With chains from every rail.
- The campus, it is closing
- Until Pettit gets his mail.
- (chorus)
-
- And now we'd like to say to you
- Before you 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.
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- Chorus: Oh! Tidings of Comfort and Joy
- Comfort and Joy
- Oh! Tidings of Comfort and Joy
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- Some notes: Until recently, Georgia Tech used an ancient set of CDC Cyber
- machines, running the NOS operating system which was like a time machine
- that only went backwards. John Gehl, the head of OCS (Office of Computing
- Services) was later fired when President Crecine took over after President
- Pettit died in 1990. Pettit was extremely dependant on the VMAIL system
- on the Cyber machines for interoffice memoranda.
-