IP: "I usually abhor this type of thing, but I am hypocritically passing this on becuase I thought it was funny."

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:23:37 -0400
>Subject: FW: I usually abhor this type of thing, but I am hypocritically
>         passing this on becuase I thought it was funny.
>From: "Jack Siegrist" <jaycyrus@att.net>
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>
>A litttle Lincoln Center humor worth relaying.      Jack Siegrist
>----------
>From: "Nan Keeton" <nkeeton@lincolncenter.org>
>Subject: I usually abhor this type of thing, but I am hypocritically passing
>this on becuase I thought it was funny.
>Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2001, 3:23 PM
>
>
>In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
>Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each
>with only 17 syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second,
>five in the third.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Your file was so big.
>It might be very useful.
>But now it is gone.
>
>The website you seek
>Cannot be located, but
>Countless more exist.
>
>Chaos reigns within.
>Reflect, repent and reboot.
>Order shall return.
>
>Aborted effort.
>Close all that you have worked on.
>You ask far too much.
>
>Windows NT crashed.
>I am the Blue Screen of Death.
>No-one hears your screams.
>
>Yesterday it worked.
>Today it is not working.
>Windows is like that.
>
>Stay the patient course.
>Of little worth is your ire.
>The network is down.
>
>A crash reduces
>Your expensive computer
>To a simple stone.
>
>Three things are certain:
>Death, taxes and lost data.
>Guess which has occurred.
>
>You step in the stream,
>But the water has moved on.
>This page is not here.
>
>Out of memory.
>We wish to hold the whole sky,
>But we never will.
>
>Having been erased,
>The document you're seeking
>Must now be retyped.



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