Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 3 Feb 1998.
A poem
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 3 Feb 1998
The following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The
original authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin
College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI.
A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as the
proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <> and, though
some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."
The text of the poem follows:
<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<> ~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED
The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.
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