Bill Cheswick:

>The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
>
>"Ding ding ding.  Please add goo.  This doesn’t happen very often."

Since we're all nerds here, I feel compelled to correct this.

The actual announcement was

    Help! Please add goo!

The suffix was applied to a different message:

    Please add toner.  You won't have to very often.

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

Other messages included

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

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

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON