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Bill Cheswick:

>The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
>
>"Ding ding ding=2E  Please add goo=2E  This doesn=E2=80=99t happen very o=
ften=2E"

Since we're all nerds here, I feel compelled to correct this=2E

The actual announcement was

    Help! Please add goo!

The suffix was applied to a different message:

    Please add toner=2E  You won't have to very often=2E

`Goo' was some sort of pre-mix that needed frequent topping up=2E
Hence `you won't have to very often,' to remind you which was which=2E

Other messages included

   Please add paper=2E
   Printer check lamp is lit=2E  What do you want to do about it?
   Service check lamp is lit=2E  You're in big trouble now!

All these messages were designed by Tom Killian, who wrote the
local code that controlled the 202=2E

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON