Robert Heller wrote:
> At Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:25:00 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:11:22PM -0500, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > I haven't found who does it for RHEL/CentOS yet, and there's a wrong
>> > attribution....
>> > --------------------- Fortune Begin ------------------------
>> >
>> > I'm N-ary the tree, I am,
>> > N-ary the tree, I am, I am.
>> > I'm getting traversed by the parser next door,
>> > She's traversed me seven times before.
>> > And ev'ry time it was an N-ary (N-ary!)
>> > Never wouldn't ever do a binary. (No sir!)
>> > I'm 'er eighth tree that was N-ary.
>> > N-ary the tree I am, I am,
>> > N-ary the tree I am.
>> > -- Stolen from Paul Revere and the Raiders
>> >
>> > Hermans' Hermits. Paul Revere and the Raiders never did it....
>>
>> I'm not familiar with a song with those lyrics, but Herman's Hermits
>> did "I'm Henry the Eighth, I am..." in a serious Cockney accent.
>>
>> Is that what you're thinking of?
>
> The above is *obviously* a "geeky" perversion of "I'm Henry the Eighth,
> I am..." by Hermans' Hermits. "Henry" in a "serious Cockney accent"
> ends up sounding something like "N-ary": basically the 'H' becomes
> silent and an 'a' is phonically inserted before the 'r', resulting in
> 'en-ar-y', which phonically matches 'N-ary'. The rest of the lyrical
That's properly typed as 'Enry, but yeah, they insert an extra 'e' in there.
> subsitution logicall follows from there... Just like the Emperor's
> 'Death Star' becomes 'rm *', with much the same effect... (There is
> somewhere in Usenet-Land a silly re-write of the "Star Wars" story
> titled "Unix Wars".)
>
Then there's the skin I read about a decade ago, with a sysadmin skin of
Doom.... (use the shotgun on that hung process....)
mark
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