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From G.A.Roeves@newcastle.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 08:41:42 1989
Subject: Divers Alarums
The Programmer's Prayer
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BEGIN
{Main program: Calls procedures for Divine Saving Algorithm}
REPEAT
Our OS, who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name.
Thy programs run, Thy syscalls done,
In kernal as they are in user.
Give us this time-slice our processor allocation,
And forgive us our hacking,
As we forgive those who hack against us.
Lead us not into /dev,
And deliver us from viruses:
For thyne is the /root, the I*SQR(R),
and the up-time.
UNTIL FALSE;
$logout
I was thinking about the ``as much use as'' stuff too, and
remembered the following -- which are similar:
``Up and down like the Asyrian Empire''
-- Monty Python, Life of Brian
``Flat as a witch's tit''
-- Austrailian Saying (used to describe beer)
``About as comfortable as a member of the Animal Liberation Front at
an owl stabbing party''
-- (Punch Magazine, years ago)
Hope these are of suitable ``quality''. Anyone else got any???
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...He [the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork] did of course sometimes have
people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be
perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally
approved of by the overwhelming majority of citizens. (The
overwhelming majority of citizens being defined in this case, as
everyone not currently hanging upside down over a scorpian pit.)...
--Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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And finally the rude joke...
It isn't "rotted" so just skip over it if you are the sensitive type:
A man walks into a jewlers, unzips his trousers, and places his tool
upon the counter.
The lady serving says, "I'm sorry sir, this is a clock shop, not a
cock shop."
"Well, put two hands on this," replies the man.
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