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Bruce, this is for you. I agree we need some nonsense now and then. > If Dr. Seuss wrote computer instructions. > > COMMUNICATIONS ERROR > If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, > and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, > and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, > then the socket packet pocket has an error to report! > > ILLEGAL OPERATION > If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, > and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, > and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, > then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash! > > NETWORK ERROR > If the label on the cable on the table at your house, > says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, > but your packets want to tunnel on another protocall, > that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, > and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, > so your icons in the window are as wavey as a sause, > then you may as well reboot it and then exit with a bang, > 'cause as sure as I'm a poet, man, that sucker's gonna hang! > > WRITE ERROR > When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk, > and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk, > then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, > and quickly turn computer off, and then go tell your mom! > > > > > ---------- > From: Bruce Anderson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Bruce Anderson > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 1:04 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Diligence > > Are there any other 3+ year members left around here who think that > this > list has gotten a bit BORING? All the bizzarity [I made that word up] > gets > filtered out so quickly that no one tries anymore. And I'm not > talking just > the jokes [although they are mostly gone too]. There was a guy named > David > Boots who went away about 3 year to get a pallidotomy or something & > never > came back. I have heard from him a couple of times. He used to offer > up all > kinds of creatively great spoofs & satire. It was often pretty pointed > humor > but always fun. Occasionally someone would get bent out of shape by > something he wrote but that was always just thin skin showing through. > Now > such humor can't appear - were too diligent! >