The Loony Bin
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loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk
)
Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:45:56 +0100
Hiya All... Alan sent this to us...I thought we'd seen it before, but apparently not... Wishes & Dreams... - ANDREA xx ***<andrea@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk>****<ajc6@ukc.ac.uk>*** ***<bloodaxe@geocities.com>***<bloodaxe@bigfoot.com>*** *** *** *** THE LOONY BIN *** *** loonies@bloodaxe.demon.co.uk *** *** Archive: http://eleceng.ukc.ac.uk/~pjw/loonies/ *** *** *** *******************Internet Goddess******************** **********************ANDROMEDA************************ ------- Forwarded foolishness follows ------- Background: 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 following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The original authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI. The text of the poem follows: <>!*''# ^"`$$- !*=3D@$_ %*<>~#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.