In another article, zcacama@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andreas M Antonopoulos) writes:
]I would be quite interested in a collection of all these T-shirt ideas.
]Will someone put them all together and post them?
]
]I wish I had the time to do it myself!
Ok, here goes. I've edited them to include only the From: header and
the actual `funnies'. The origin of some of the quotes was given in
other articles; I have not included it here.
I've tried to sort them into a rough order of subject: `Smile', devices,
`do it', /*comments*/, finger, grep, cat, load/save, errors, misc.
Comments are included in [brackets].
I hope I've included all of them.
We should have a vote for the best. Anyone willing to collect email?
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.Marty.!
Lost in Space! (or is it Japan?)
[pauley@tai.jkj.sii.co.jp]
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From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
#1:
SMILE IF YOU HACK UNIX
#2:
I'M A HACKER AND I'M OK
(*crackers* are the criminals)
#3:
/dev/null
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From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey)
SMILE IF YOU GROK UNIX.
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From: mgemmel@cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel)
SMILE IFF YOU GROK UNIX
[subtle ^^^ difference]
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From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
YOU FORTH LIKE IF SMILE THEN ;
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From: magnasco@research.nj.nec.com (Marcelo Magnasco)
/dev/teeshirt
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From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
/dev/shirt/tee
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From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
/bin/tee
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From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
From: egdorf@zaphod.lanl.gov (Skip Egdorf)
"/nev/dull"
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From: lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka)
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
Write failed on /dev/brain0: filesystem full
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From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (The Highlander)
Write failed on /dev/null: filesystem full
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From: oxenreid@chaos.cs.umn.edu
/dev/earth full: Remove anyone you can.
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From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (The Highlander)
Error reading device MIND:
Sector not found.
A)bort R)etry I)gnore F)ail
-or-
Kernel Panic: The sticky bit is stuck.
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From: kstuart@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kenneth Stuart)
"COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS DO IT SLOWLY - BIT BY BIT!"
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From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Computer programmers do it bit by bit.
-or-
Computer programmers do it byte by byte.
-or-
Hackers do it while chasing bugs....
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From: jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk (Stephen Crane)
/*
* you are not expected to understand this
*/
(So sue me AT & T)
[with or without the comment in parentheses]
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From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
/*
* If the new process paused because it was
* swapped out, set the stack level to the last call
* to savu(u_ssav). This means that the return
* which is executed immediately after the call to aretu
* actually returns from the last routine which did
* the savu.
*
* You are not expected to understand this.
*/
[ Those with V6 source still online will find this in the swtch() routine
in /usr/sys/ken/slp.c.]
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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
/* Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 AT&T */
/* All Rights Reserved */
/* THIS T-SHIRT CONTAINS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */
/* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */
/* actual or intended publication of such source code. */
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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
"finger me; I have a .plan"
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From: ollis@funlwb.stl.dec.com (Stephen Ollis)
Awk! I've been grep'd by a zombie with a pipe!
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From: cs92njc@ccws-29.brunel.ac.uk.ac.uk (Nik Clayton)
I tried Unix...
... but I couldn't get to greps with it.
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From: S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk (Scott A. McIntyre)
"Reach out and grep someone"
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From: mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews)
Front: cat food
Back: cat: cannot find food
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From: azog@spatula.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
Front: LOAD "A HEART OF GOLD"
Back: SEARCHING FOR A HEART OF GOLD
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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
God save the Queen,8,1
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From: seanm@sobeco.com (s.macguire)
Front: "UNIX: Live Free or Die"
Back: KERNEL MODE FAULT
who cares
unknown error (%d)
WARNING:
PANIC:
DOUBLE PANIC:
Could not find bucket for size: %d
init died
swap - i/o error in swap
console_panic_enabled
No Heart Beat %d
mangled .. entry
free inode isn't
!proc_lookup got ".." and that is invalid
ctl-T's if you want to crash the kernel.
Are you sure you want to do this?
You have 10 secs to answer - y or n -
preposterous time in file system
CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
kernel dumping core!! ***
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From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
COMPILER UNABLE TO ABORT
-or-
You can't do that in horizontal mode
[supposed to be from an early TeX version]
-or-
You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an argument with the
IRS, or satisfy this compiler.
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From: eigenstr@cs.rose-hulman.edu (Todd R. Eigenschink)
Babble error - sent a packet longer than the maximum length
First Read of TOD chip shows insanity
Kennedy
Time is going backwards
USER TOO STUPID ERROR!
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From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes)
[Chris Veenstra [veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca], posts the following
periodically to rec.humor.]
% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% got a light?
No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink [bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
$ mkdir matter; cat ]matter
matter: cannot create
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From: boebert@sctc.com (Earl Boebert)
"Get thee to a BUNnery"
[If want to understand the joke, just look up the BUN instruction in
any BLEAP manual :-)]
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From: aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Remner)
"You can't be too thin, too rich, or have too many clock cycles."
-or-
"Kibo is an international conspiracy of one.
The only problem is, he has the other six billion or so of us outnumbered."
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From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
* Subroutines (i.e. close all hatches before diving)
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From: gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Gothick)
"UNIX: It's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to *visit* there"
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From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
"NFS server not responding - still trying"
-or-
"No, I'm a member of the X Users Group, not the ex-users group"
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From: oxenreid@chaos.cs.umn.edu
Front: "Looking for X?"
Back: "Ask me!"
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From: pmueller@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (The Highlander)
A host is a host from coast to coast
And no one will talk to a host that's close
Unless the host (that isn't close)
is busy, hung or dead.
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From: nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu (N.W. Choe)
UseNET
Wasting hundreds, if not thousands of dollars every time I post.
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From: ia@st-andrews.ac.uk (Ian Angles)
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