Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>
> As long as we are being silly (ref. George Carlin),
> allow me to offer this hoary old chestnut up to the
> input:
> -----------
> 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.
>
> 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 text of the poem follows:
>
> <> !*''#
> ^"`$$-
> !*=@$_
> %*<> ~#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.
> -----------
> Of course, it falls short in several Hackish ways ('hash'
> instead of 'octothorpe,' for instance), and is even
> internally inconsistent ('hash' and 'number' for '#'),
> but it is not bad for a freshman effort. Maybe someday
> I will make the appropriate adjustments to make it a
> true encoded Hackish work that scans..
Cute! I've never heard of 'octothorpe' before; where's it from? I like
'pound'. I hate 'curly-braket'; 'brace' is much better. 'Vertical-bar'
should of course be 'pipe'. Where does 'waka' come from?
I've seen 'splat' before, but I have to side with 'star'.
> --
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>
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