From navaho@merle.acns.nwu.edu Wed Apr 19 09:47 CDT 1995 Received: from postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu by sparc0a.cs.uiuc.edu with SMTP id AA04744 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:00:34 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA45310; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 04:00:29 GMT Received: from merle.acns.nwu.edu (navaho@merle.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.57]) by postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA12780; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:00:21 -0500 Received: by merle.acns.nwu.edu (1.37.109.16/20.3) id AA106274009; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:00:09 -0500 Return-Path: From: navaho@merle.acns.nwu.edu X-Ph: V4.4@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu Message-Id: <199504190400.AA106274009@merle.acns.nwu.edu> Subject: Try THIS in the mosh pit (fwd) FUNNY! To: deluded@mit.edu (Ronald David Schmelzer), dsjelen@students.wisc.edu (Dov S. Jelen), ds-cohen@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Deborah Shoshana Cohen), r-mcghee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan McGhee), amerchan@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Abbas Merchant), roth@uiuc.edu (Mark Roth), mbblum@uiuc.edu (Michael Blumenthal), dan@overbyte.mit.edu (Daniel Pomerantz), u59965@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Richard X. Martinoff), u46353@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Michelle M. Yaffee), u20846@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Ariella Fay Rosenberg), u28537@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Reva Robeson), u27902@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU (Robert Yaffee), ysoloff@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Yedida Leah Soloff), altman29@wharton.upenn.edu (Steve Altman), mwilson@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew James Wilson), chadford@eecs.nwu.edu (Charad Sheerajin), wn9s@nwu.edu (Albert Ethan Schmelzer), emery@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Emery Chang), antman@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Gibbons), mlb256@lulu.acns.nwu.edu (Maria Belyayeva), tgordon@husc.harvard.edu (Tamar Gordon), klynn@ripco.com (Kate Hugart), baltman@orion.it.luc.edu (Brian Altman), jhm1685@is.NYU.EDU (Jacob H. Mendelsohn), alivschi@midway.uchicago.edu (Ann Livschiz), IZZY4PK@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Pooja Gupta) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 23:00:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3117 Status: RO >Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny >From: kevinh@eit.com (Kevin Hughes) >Subject: Try THIS in the mosh pit >Keywords: smirk, parody, computers >Approved: funny@clarinet.com >Path: news.acns.nwu.edu!cnews.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!looking!funny-request >Message-ID: >Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 19:30:03 EDT >Lines: 87 Finally, a song for my generation! I apologize in advance; this is what happens after too many fruit punch Snapples at night. :) User ~~~~ (To the tune of Beck's "Loser") In the day of sysop nerds I was a flunkie Jolt in my brains and body feeling chunky With the plastic mouse balls spray paint the Commodore System install with the hard drive on the floor Kill the process and put it in /dev/null Email flaming with the user hitting D-control Shell's called Reno and it's written in C Got a couple of xterms, keys set to repeat Root came sayin' I'm insane to complain About an online wedding and a stain on my screen Don't believe everything that you make(1) You get a cracker from Europe and a login that's fake So write your code in Perl in the dark Saving all your hacks for working at a tech park Yo - punch it So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (Double dense floppy) So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? Forces of evil in a MUD/MOO nightmare Ban all the members in a phony #chat channel 'cause One's got a handle and the other's got a .plan One online spammed the other and ran With the FTP and the insane print job The daytime crap of the alt.test slob He hung himself with a call to ping Twenty milliseconds and it's spitting out another string RTFM if you can't relate Trade the Sun for a car and the Web for a date And MIME is a nifty hack for mailing to a newbie That's choking on my MPEGs So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (Get crazy with the caps lock) So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (Drive-by BIFF post) ... Yo, bring it on down ... I'm a hacker, I'm a winner Program's gonna work, I can feel it So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (I can't retrieve you) So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (NULL) So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (Sprecken sie DOS, eh, baby) So - dumping core I'm a user, baby, so why don't you kill(1) me? (Know what I'm typin'?) -- Kevin -- Kevin Hughes * kevinh@eit.com Enterprise Integration Technologies Webmaster (http://www.eit.com/) Hypermedia Industrial Designer * Duty now for the future! -- Selected by Maddi Hausmann Sojourner. MAIL your joke to funny@clarinet.com. Sponsored by ClariNet Communications Corp. If you post instead of mailing, it screws up the reply-address sometimes. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. -- Only people capable of loving deeply can experience profound grief; but the very necessity they feel to love serves as an antidote to grief and heals them. from _Childhood_ by Leo Tolstoy