From mrobbins@xxxxxx.net Wed Feb 22 09:23:05 CST 1995
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Crosspost from humor
Date: 21 Feb 1995 13:41:51 GMT
This is offtopic and may earn me a flame or two, but I think you guys
and gals can use a good laugh. Found it in a mailing list.
These are some things that many Unix operating systems will print in
response to various commands. What the user has typed has a "% " in
front of it:
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% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
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% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
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% rm God
rm: God nonexistent
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% ar t God
ar: God does not exist]
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% ar r God
ar: creating God
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% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
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% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
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% ^How did the sex change operation go?
^ Modifier failed.
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% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what
would I have?
Too many ('s.
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% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
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% sleep with me
bad character
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% got a light?
No match.
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% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
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% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
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% %blow
%blow: No such job.
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/* not csh but sh */
$ PATH=pretending!/usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
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$ drink
