Apparently, this little poem has been around since at least 1990, but this is the first time I’ve come across it. First, the written version:
! * ‘ ‘ #
^ ” ` $ $ –
! * = @ $ _
% * ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , SYSTEM HALTED
Doesn’t make much sense, does it? Now, if you realize that angle brackets, according to readers of InFocus magazine, are pronounced “waka” and an exclamation point is often called a bang, well then you get this wonderful version when read aloud:
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
Yeah, it’s geek humor, but I love it.
(Link and poem courtesy of Diveintomark)
Hee! Hadn’t seen that one before…but I was always fond of Hatless Atlas 🙂
^<@<.@*
}”_# |
-@$&/_%
!( @|=>
;`+$?^?
,#”~|)^G
hat less at less point at star
backbrace double base pound space bar
dash at cash and slash base rate
wow open tab at bar is great
semi backquote plus cash huh DEL
comma pound double tilde bar close BEL
That is cute.
Proof positive that someone had way too much time on their hands.
I love it!
-Partran
It even has a decent beat to it… *chuckles*
I agree with Partran!!! But it does have a “certain cache” to it. Ma
If they were real geeks
They would pronounce # “pound” and | “pipe.”
So there are, instead, wet-behind-the-ears script kiddies who think they are geeks. They’re probably the same kinds of folks who think that FTP is a “a new protocol I heard about that doesn’t work as well as KaZaa…”
Re: If they were real geeks
kermit? Wasn’t he a frog? 😉
And an xmodem must be on that’s been hit by lightning.
*giggle*
OK, that’s just too cute.