Of chads and things

[Rudolph C Troike]

This was too good not to pass along; though not new, at least newly
relevant. --Rudy

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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 11:46:39 -0700
From: Gretchen Robinson <pismoclam at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: LINGUA at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: FW: the topic of poetry

With all that talk of dots and chads, I had to share this:


"Waka Waka Bang Splat"

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Transliterated:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret at back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat tick dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka number four,
Ampersand right-paren dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket tilde tilde CRASH.

--Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese (according to
http://www.web.shorty.com/lists/geeks/96/dec/msg00005.html)