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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