Re: OT: sponge burning!
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>:
>
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:43:13PM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>:
> > >
> > > as has already been said, natural sponges, having protien content,
> > > would surely have some reaction in a microwave. That said, we all know
> > > that 1) there's nothing natural about the aforementioned "sponge" and
> > ...................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Hey! Is that some kinda homophobic crack?
> >
> > <Whoops. Gotta go. :-)>
>
> wah-ka wah-ka wah-ka
Well, since you brought it up:
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The following poem is excerpted with permission from Lee Leitner's
"Viewpoint" column which is featured in a bimonthly periodical for
Prime INFORMATION users called INFOCUS magazine. The original authors
were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of
Grand Rapids, MI.
FYI - a "wahka" is the decidedly "proper" (by popular vote) name for
the characters ">" and "<". This is in spite of INFOCUS readers of
Denver who still refer to them as "Norkies". The Michigan crowd
apparently has corrupted the spelling to "waka".
To wit, it is -
"... a poem we think is about the lowly wahka. Maybe. Well,
perhaps ... We're really not sure what the poem actually is
about. Here it goes:
<>!*''#
^@`$$-
!*'$_
%*<>#4
&)../
|{~~SYSTEM HALTED
Transliterated:
Waka waka bang splat, tick tick hash,
Caret at back-tick, dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat tick, dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka, waka number four,
Ampersand, right-paren, dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar, curly-bracket, tilde tilde CRASH."
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