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To: rzeznikj at stout
OK, you win there...

But I have a teacher certification that indicates that my academic specialization is science, so, yes, I beat you in chemistry/biology. ;D

94 posted on 12/30/2006 11:24:27 AM PST by Kate of Spice Island (Jawn Eff Qari - what a maroon!)
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To: Kate of Spice Island

Some of my faves from *nix lab (rated "PG")...

% indicates command was run in C Shell
$ indicates command was run in bash (Bourne Shell)

% cd /tmp
% touch this; chmod 000 this
% ln -s /usr/bin/touch U
% U this
U: cannot touch this: no write permission

$ ar x "my love life"
ar: my love life does not exist

$ ar x "matey, the treasure"
ar: matey, the tresure does not exist

$ talk Gorbachev@Kremlin
talk: Kremlin: Can't figure out network address.

$ talk Comrade Khrushchev
[Your party is not logged on]

% make sense
Make: Don't know how to make sense. 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.

% \(-
(-: Command not found.

% sh

$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found

$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create

>%touch me
>%chmod 000 me
>%touch me
>touch: cannot touch me: permission denied

$ ar t God
ar: God does not exist

$ ar r God
ar: creating God

$ cat "door: paws too slippery"
cat: cannot open door: paws too slippery

$ cat "food in tin cans"
cat: cannot open food in tin cans

ah, *nix...8^)


124 posted on 12/30/2006 7:52:42 PM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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