A little Song to start your day!

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Greetings, I got this from a friend. This is terriffic! Who thinks up these things? Millennium Pie (with apologies to Don McLean) > >A long, long time ago... >I can still remember how >Computers used to make me smile. >And I knew if I had my chance, >That I could make electrons dance, >And maybe I'd be happy for a while. > >But January made me shiver, >it chilled me deep down in my liver, >Bad news I'd collected... >I couldn't get connected. > >I can't remember back that day >When I first knew the Y2K >But something touched me anyway, >The day computers died. > >So, ...Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi >Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry >And good ol' boys were sending e-mail replies >Saying this will be the day I retire >this will be the day I retire > >Can you write in C plus plus ? >And do you have faith in your local bus >If the driver tells you so ? >Do you believe in Compaq's goals >Can software save your mortal soul >And can you teach me how to type real slow ? > >Well I thought that you were prepared >'Cause your memo said you weren't impaired >Your stationery's swell >But you can go to hell > >I was a lonely teenage Unix hack >With an incantation and a modem jack >but I knew the cat had left the sack >The day computers died I started singin'... > >Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi >Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry >And good ol' boys were sending e-mail replies >Saying this will be the day I retire >this will be the day I retire > >Now for 10 years we've ignored the threat >And we haven't solved the problem yet >But that's not how it used to be >When the Luddites read for the king and queen >with a light they filled with kerosene >And some manuals they stole from you and me > >And while Bill Gates was looking pleased >Time stole his monopolies >The courtroom was adjourned >No verdict was returned > >While Apple tried a colour scheme >The engineers returned to steam >And we had purges of their dreams >The day computers died > >We were singin' > >Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi >Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry >And good ol' boys were sending e-mail replies >Saying this will be the day I retire >this will be the day I retire > >Intel inside in an iron smelter >The food leftover from my fallout shelter >Twinkies old and aging fast >I'd rather eat the grass >Q and A tried for a system crash >With the tester on the sidelines in a cast > >Now the timeshare net was running Doom >While mainframes played a marching tune >We all tried to log in >Oh, but we never could begin > >'Cause Cobol tried to take the field, >And Hollerith refused to yield. >Do you recall what was revealed, >The day computers died? > >We started singing >Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi >Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry >And good ol' boys were sending e-mail replies >Saying this will be the day I retire >this will be the day I retire > >There we were all in a state >A generation- really late >With no time left to start again >So come on mouse be nimble, mouse be quick >Don't let my spreadsheet data stick > >'Cause data is the Devil's only friend. > >As I watched him on my screen >My hands and face were drenched in steam >No angel born in hell >Could run that stupid shell > >And as the ball climbed high into the night >To call the sacrificial night >I saw Dick Clark laughing with delight >the day computers died. > >I met a girl with mobile phone >And I asked her for a dial tone >But she just smiled and turned away > >I went down to the software store >Where I'd seen computers years before >But the man there said the games there wouldn't play >And in the streets the children screamed >The lovers cried and the poets dreamed >their interface was spoken >The Internet was broken > >And the three things I connect to most >The website, Lan and the network host >Every single one was toast >The day computers died > >They were singin' > >Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi >Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry >And good ol' boys were sending e-mail replies >Saying this will be the day I retire >this will be the day I retire.

ROTFLMAO

BLUE >

-- Blue (bluefish@thepond.com), November 10, 1999


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