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From: Chambers
Subject: Programming Poetry
Date: 27 Mar 2008 11:30:01
Message: <web.47ebca9a80cc7a7261d9700@news.povray.org>
From bash.org:

<piercings> A programmer started to cuss
<piercings> Because getting to sleep was a fuss
<piercings> As he lay there in bed
<piercings> Looping 'round in his head
<piercings> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;

:)


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From: Gail Shaw
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 27 Mar 2008 11:36:41
Message: <47ebcd19@news.povray.org>
"Chambers" <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:web.47ebca9a80cc7a7261d9700@news.povray.org...
> From bash.org:
>
> <piercings> A programmer started to cuss
> <piercings> Because getting to sleep was a fuss
> <piercings> As he lay there in bed
> <piercings> Looping 'round in his head
> <piercings> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;

<groan>


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 27 Mar 2008 11:40:23
Message: <47ebcdf7$1@news.povray.org>
I wish to God I could find one of Don's postings right now... but 
there's no way I can find it on que like that. :-P

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: triple r
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 29 Mar 2008 11:35:01
Message: <web.47ee6f1cef76db04ae42298f0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I wish to God I could find one of Don's postings right now... but
> there's no way I can find it on que like that. :-P
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


Of course what you really meant to say was,

I wish to God I could find
a posting with the name of Don signed,
but I do not think,
and I say with a wink,
I'll find on cue one of that kind.

 - Ricky


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 09:05:52
Message: <47f0efc0@news.povray.org>
A couple of stolen haiku:

1. Yesterday it worked
   Today it is not working
   Windows is like that


2. Chaos reigns within
   Reflect, repent and reboot
   Order shall return


John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 10:04:11
Message: <65v1v3lsftsmsgnn680ap9r69ne7taqng3@4ax.com>
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:35:24 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:

>A couple of stolen haiku:

Oh User
Climb Mt Vista,
But slowly, slowly!

And one from the Rev Charles Dodgson 

Speak severely to your 'putor
And beat it when it glitches.
It only does it to annoy
Because it knows it itches.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 10:10:22
Message: <47f0fede$1@news.povray.org>
Doctor John wrote:
> A couple of stolen haiku:
> 
> 1. Yesterday it worked
>    Today it is not working
>    Windows is like that
> 
> 
> 2. Chaos reigns within
>    Reflect, repent and reboot
>    Order shall return
> 
> 
> John

Ah, so "haiku" means "random collection of words that looks like a verse 
but has no form or structure and is generally devoid of redeeming features"?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 10:25:42
Message: <47f10276@news.povray.org>
Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:35:24 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
> wrote:
> 
>> A couple of stolen haiku:
> 
> Oh User
> Climb Mt Vista,
> But slowly, slowly!
> 
> And one from the Rev Charles Dodgson 
> 
> Speak severely to your 'putor
> And beat it when it glitches.
> It only does it to annoy
> Because it knows it itches.
> 
:-)

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 10:47:12
Message: <47f10780$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
>> A couple of stolen haiku:
>>
>> 1. Yesterday it worked
>>    Today it is not working
>>    Windows is like that
>>
>>
>> 2. Chaos reigns within
>>    Reflect, repent and reboot
>>    Order shall return
>>
>>
>> John
> 
> Ah, so "haiku" means "random collection of words that looks like a verse
> but has no form or structure and is generally devoid of redeeming
> features"?
> 

Invisible writes
Random collection of words
John does not take bait

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Programming Poetry
Date: 31 Mar 2008 11:53:29
Message: <ji52v3tdd8835v4dvmant0vupmf8c4ajg4@4ax.com>
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:10:03 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>Ah, so "haiku" means "random collection of words that looks like a verse 
>but has no form or structure and is generally devoid of redeeming features"?

Beautiful Rendering engine o' the Pov-Ray!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That "haiku" means "random collection of words that looks like a verse
but has no form or structure and is generally devoid of redeeming
features", has been made, to be say
On this the last day of March
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

Is that better it rhymes now? With no apologies to William Topaz
McGonagall, poet and tragedian of Dundee.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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