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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Subject: [TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:19:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201409271919.s8RJJwPx019024@skeeve.com> (raw)

Hi All.

This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about
it on this list before.)

At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in
Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values.
The one that won, which I remember to this day was:

EMISTERED:
	A host is a host from coast to coast,
	and no-one can talk to host that's close,
	unless the host that isn't close
	is busy, hung, or dead.

I have quoted this is the gawk doc for many years.

I'm wondering if there is a way to find out who was the author
of this gem? I'd like to give him/her credit.

Thanks,

Arnold



             reply	other threads:[~2014-09-27 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-27 19:19 Aharon Robbins [this message]
2014-09-27 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-27 20:58   ` Warren Toomey
2014-09-27 21:16     ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-28 10:01   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-28 15:04     ` Ronald Natalie
2014-09-28 16:22       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-09-27 20:41 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-09-27 21:09 ` Clem Cole
2014-09-28  4:44   ` arnold
2014-09-28  4:54     ` Larry McVoy
2014-09-28 14:06 ` John Cowan
2014-10-02 11:46 ` Warren Toomey
2014-10-02 12:12   ` arnold
2014-10-02 22:19     ` Warren Toomey
2014-10-03  9:24       ` arnold
2014-10-02 14:52   ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2014-10-02 13:00 Norman Wilson

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