Article 17 of alt.folklore.computers: Path: umn-cs!nic.MR.NET!srcsip!ctrsol!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!fas.ri.cmu.edu!dstewart From: dstewart@fas.ri.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Unix Message-ID: <7223@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 89 05:24:33 GMT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 72 I personally like the humour provided by the csh shell. The following came my way several months ago. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for any of these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Barth writes: Since we are all now great Unix wizards, the follow might be humorous. It came to me from Umass. Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be issued from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell. ------------------------------------------------------ % rm meese-ethics rm: meese-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence? Unmatched ". % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. % sleep with me bad character % got a light? No match. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % %blow %blow: No such job. % \(- (-: Command not found. % sh $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink matter matter: cannot create -- David B. Stewart, Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr., and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, email: stewart@faraday.ece.cmu.edu The following software is now available; ask me for details CHIMERA II, A Real-time OS for Sensor-Based Control Applications .