[Tallahassee-pm] Halloweek-- a bit of fun

[Tillman, James]

Gosh.  And I thought I was in the spirit of the season when I changed my
screen saver....

Hey, I found some somewhat Halloweeny Perl poetry:

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"Surgical Blues" by yosefm (PerlMonks)

open BODY;
chop;
chop;
chop;
split;
push @body, 'hands in gloves';
pack 'a', 'prosthetic' and unpack 'a', 'bone';
splice @skeleton;
join @blood_vessels;
close or die;

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"Black Perl" from Programming Perl, 3rd Edition

BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit;  wait until time.
    open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
write it, print the hex while each watches,
    reverse its length, write again;
    kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
       unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
    kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
    values aside, each one;
        die sheep! die to reverse the system
        you accept (reject, respect);
next step,
    kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
    wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
    do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
return last victim; package body;
    exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
    select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
AFTERWORDS: tell nobody.
    wait, wait until time;
    wait until next year, next decade;
        sleep, sleep, die yourself,
        die at last

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jpt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rebekah Landbeck [mailto:rlandbeck at uniteddatatronics.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:59 AM
> To: tallahassee-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [Tallahassee-pm] Halloweek-- a bit of fun
> 
> 
> 
> So management has this bright idea of encouraging each 
> department to come 
> up with a decoration theme for the week of Halloween, and to come in 
> costume on the day itself.  D-- one of the more fun management-type 
> individuals and head of a different department-- is telling 
> me and R-- one 
> of the network analysts-- about the whole thing.  R says, 
> "C'mon, what 
> would we do?  We don't have any women, we're not good at that kind of 
> stuff."  D and I stare at him for a second, and she points at me.  He 
> blinks and goes, "Oh, I forgot about her."  I knew I was one 
> of the guys, 
> but... !!!
> 
> I made the guys all chip in five bucks and an old grey 
> t-shirt and told 'em 
> I'd take care of the rest.  Now we've got translucent green 
> vellum taped to 
> the fluorescent light panels to give everything a greenish 
> cast, black 
> plastic covering one wall, black and green crepe paper 
> streaming down over 
> it in a design vaguely reminiscent of dripping code, and strips of 
> posterboard with drawings of red and blue pills at the 
> corners and which 
> read "Mr. Anderson" stuck over all the nameplates (corporate 
> clones, that's 
> us... mine is "Ms. Anderson" though), and a border of green 
> weird symbols 
> around the whiteboard.  I'm cutting the hems off the shirts, 
> including the 
> ones at neck and arms, and making them all wrinkly, and we'll 
> wear them 
> with drab colored pants and have stuck on our skin little posterboard 
> circles colored to look like sockets...
> 
> Muahaha.  Management should know better than to let Networking have a 
> chance at something like this.  I wonder how many blank looks 
> we're going 
> to get.
> 
> Rebekah
> 
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