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----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Fwo
Sent: Sunday, 19 September 1999 7:03 AM
Subject: (GEN)Millennium Pie Millennium
Pie (with apologies to Don
McLean) A long, long time ago... I can still
remember how Computers used to make me
smile. And I knew if I had my
chance, That I could make electrons
dance, And maybe I'd be happy for a
while. But January made me
shiver, it chilled me deep down in my
liver, Bad news I'd
collected... I couldn't get
connected. I can't remember back that
day When I first knew the
Y2K But something touched me
anyway, The day computers
died. So,. ..Bye, bye to the next digit of
Pi Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was
dry And good ol' boys were sending e-mail
replies Saying this will be the day I
retire this will be the day I
retire Can you write in C plus plus?
And do you have faith in your local bus
If the driver
tells you so? Do you believe in Compaq's
goals Can software save your mortal
soul And can you teach me how to type real
slow? Well I thought that you were
prepared 'Cause your memo said you weren't
impaired Your stationery's
swell But you can go to
hell I was a lonely teenage Unix
hack With an incantation and a modem
jack but I knew the cat had left the
sack The day computers
died I started
singin'... Bye, bye to the next digit of
Pi Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was
dry And good ol' boys were sending e-mail
replies Saying this will be the day I
retire this will be the day I
retire Now for 10 years we've ignored the
threat And we haven't solved the problem
yet But that's not how it used to
be When the luddites read for the king and
queen with a light they filled with
kerosene And some manuals they stole from you and
me And while Bill Gates was looking
pleased Time stole his
monopolies The courtroom was
adjourned No verdict was
returned While Apple tried a colour
scheme The engineers returned to
steam And we had purges of their
dreams The day computers
died We were
singin' Bye, bye to the next digit of
Pi Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was
dry And good ol' boys were sending e-mail
replies Saying this will be the day I
retire this will be the day I
retire Intel inside in an iron
smelter The food leftover from my fallout
shelter Twinkies old and aging
fast I'd rather eat the
grass Q and A tried for a system
crash With the tester on the sidelines in a
cast Now the timeshare net was running
Doom While mainframes played a marching
tune We all tried to log
in Oh, but we never could
begin 'Cause Cobol tried to take the
field, And Hollerith refused to
yield. Do you recall what was
revealed, The day computers
died? We started
singing Bye, bye to the next digit of
Pi Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was
dry And good ol' boys were sending e-mail
replies Saying this will be the day I
retire this will be the day I
retire There we were all in a
state A generation- really
late With no time left to start
again So come on mouse be nimble, mouse be
quick Don't let my spreadsheet data
stick Cause data is the devil's only
friend. As I watched him on my
screen My hands and face were drenched in
steam No angel born in
hell Could run that stupid
shell And as the ball climbed high into the
night To call the sacrificial
night I saw Dick Clark laughing with
delight the day computers
died. I met a girl with a cell
phone And I asked her for a dial
tone But she just smiled and turned
away I went down to the software
store Where I'd seen computers years
before But the man there said the games there
wouldn't play And in the streets the children
screamed The lovers cried and the poets
dreamed their interface was
spoken The Internet was
broken And the three things I connect to
most The Website, Lan and the Network
host Every single one was
toast The day computers
died They were
singin' Bye, bye to the next digit of
Pi Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was
dry And good ol' boys were sending e-mail
replies Saying this will be the day I
retire this will be the day I
retire |
