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 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".) > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments