From dpg1001@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 13 19:17:22 EDT 1993 Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!pipex!warwick!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!dpg1001 From: dpg1001@cl.cam.ac.uk (D.P. Grisby) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Insulting messages (was: 10 Commandments of C) Message-ID: <1993Jun4.164352.14839@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jun 93 16:43:52 GMT References: <1993May29.130932.12893@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jun2.205306.710@telesciences.com> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK Lines: 65 Nntp-Posting-Host: murrow.cl.cam.ac.uk In article , mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes: |> In article <1993Jun2.205306.710@telesciences.com> tnelson@fluorite.telesciences.com (Tracy M Nelson) writes: |> |> >If you typed HELP ME, it would say NO HELP AVAILABLE FOR YOU. And, |> >of course, if you typed HELP YOURSELF it would respond "Thank you, |> >I believe I will". |> |> It's been about a year... will someone at Cambridge University please type |> HELP BUSES and HELP TRAINS (on Phoenix) and post the results? |> They were classics when I first saw them in 1977... in keeping with |> Cambridge's medieval origins, one of them is partly in Latin. |> (Now that's an _old_ OS!) |> |> -- |> :- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : ***** Well, HELP TRAINS didn't come up with anything, but here are a few of the things Phoenix help does know about... HELP BUS What is this that roareth thus? Can it be a Motor Bus? Yes, the smell and hideous hum Indicat Motorem Bum! Implet wheresoe'er they ply Terror me Motoris Bi: Bo Motori clamitabo Ne Motore caedar a Bo - Dative be or Ablative So thou only let us live: Whither shall thy victims flee? Spare us, spare us, Motor Be! Thus I sang; and still anigh Came in hordes Motores Bi, Et complebat omne forum Copia Motorum Borum. How shall wretches live like us Cincti Bis Motoribus? Domine, defende nos Contra hos Motores Bos! HELP SEX Phoenix/MVS, being of essentially neuter gender, cannot help with emotional, personal or physical human problems. HELP GOD Please appeal to deities directly, not via Phoenix/MVS. HELP PHEONIX Pheonix is spelt Phoenix and pronounced Feenicks. HELP CS CS is a standard abbreviation for Computing Service; it is also a "gas" used for riot control. I think there are probably a few others too, but I can't remember what they are. -- | Duncan Grisby | | // | | Queens College, | Internet: dpg1001@phx.cam.ac.uk | // /| | | Cambridge CB3 9ET, | Janet: dpg1001@uk.ac.cam.phx | \\ // /-|MIGA | | ENGLAND. | | \X/ |