Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:25:00 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:11:22PM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> > I haven't found who does it for RHEL/CentOS yet, and there's a wrong >> > attribution.... >> > --------------------- Fortune Begin ------------------------ >> > >> > I'm N-ary the tree, I am, >> > N-ary the tree, I am, I am. >> > I'm getting traversed by the parser next door, >> > She's traversed me seven times before. >> > And ev'ry time it was an N-ary (N-ary!) >> > Never wouldn't ever do a binary. (No sir!) >> > I'm 'er eighth tree that was N-ary. >> > N-ary the tree I am, I am, >> > N-ary the tree I am. >> > -- Stolen from Paul Revere and the Raiders >> > >> > Hermans' Hermits. Paul Revere and the Raiders never did it.... >> >> I'm not familiar with a song with those lyrics, but Herman's Hermits >> did "I'm Henry the Eighth, I am..." in a serious Cockney accent. >> >> Is that what you're thinking of? > > The above is *obviously* a "geeky" perversion of "I'm Henry the Eighth, > I am..." by Hermans' Hermits. "Henry" in a "serious Cockney accent" > ends up sounding something like "N-ary": basically the 'H' becomes > silent and an 'a' is phonically inserted before the 'r', resulting in > 'en-ar-y', which phonically matches 'N-ary'. The rest of the lyrical That's properly typed as 'Enry, but yeah, they insert an extra 'e' in there. > subsitution logicall follows from there... Just like the Emperor's > 'Death Star' becomes 'rm *', with much the same effect... (There is > somewhere in Usenet-Land a silly re-write of the "Star Wars" story > titled "Unix Wars".) > Then there's the skin I read about a decade ago, with a sysadmin skin of Doom.... (use the shotgun on that hung process....) mark