poem
I got this in an e-mail in high school and held onto it, knowing that the day would come when I would need it. That day is today.
A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as theproper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> although some readersheldout resolutely for "norkies." The text of the poem follows:
<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_ %*<> ~#4
&[]../
{,,SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit: Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as theproper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> although some readersheldout resolutely for "norkies." The text of the poem follows:
<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_ %*<> ~#4
&[]../
{,,SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit: 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.
posted by rox @ 5:28 p.m.
2 Comments:
At 8:16 p.m.,
Joe Bunce said…
So THAT'S what Fozzy Bear was talking about on "The Muppet Show" when he kept saying "Waka waka waka!"
I would never have guessed...
At 4:40 a.m.,
Seth R. said…
I had no idea ">" was pronounce "waka" or "!" could be called "bang". I'm going to have to find some way to use those facts in everyday conversation.
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