King of Spain for Unix Weenies

So, for some odd reason, there are several of us in the SIPB (the MIT Student Information Processing Board) that are real Fruheads. As a result, we tend to listen to Bargainville and Wood on an almost daily basis. One day while I Love My Boss was playing, Kretch made a joke about a song called I Love My VOS. (VOS is a command for talking to the AFS (Andrew File System) Volume Server. That got me thinking about doing the King of Spain in that style, and well, here it is...


Once I was the King of main(); /* now I eat htonl(3.14159) */
Oh, chmod u-w ~queenlisa/dev/audio  # now I eat htoln(3.14159)
echo "@b(I was the King of main()!)" | zwrite you # now I eat htoln(3.14159)
echo "rlogin 967-1111.COM -l king" | at "now"

su root; echo "I look good" | wall
cat /dev/silk > royal-boudoir || nuclear_free
/usr/bin/Crokinole --with princess@monaco.mn
Pnews rec.humor.funny news.opec.org >/dev/video

Once I was the King of main(); /* now I eat htonl(3.14159) */
env -> HOME=/homes/palatial-palace
echo "@b(I was the King of main()!)" | zwrite you # now I eat htoln(3.14159)
rsh skydome.com rm -rf /turf

nice -5 %lower-interest-rates
(people-say '(how? king-genius)
            '(and (overhead? roof) (food? on-plate))) -> #t
fs sa rlidwka /afs/*.es; echo '>/dev/null' > ~/.forward
cal | sed "s/F/S/g"
&& find /homes -type baby -btime -1 -exec cp chocolate-eclair {}

Once I was the King of main(); /* now I eat htonl(3.14159) */
mail president@whitehouse.gov yeltsin@gov.ru -s "Problems? Phone me..."
echo "@b(I was the King of main()!)" | zwrite you # now I eat htoln(3.14159)
syscall(DRIVE_ZAMBONI); /* Leafs */

pick -subject "How did you come to be living in Canada?" \
     -after "being royalty in Spain" | wc -l -> 314
repl: 

% date
Wed Aug  7 22:28:24 EDT 1996
% ps 
  PID TTY STAT  TIME COMMAND
    1  p1 S     0:00 Palace
% mv royal-chambers/me garden >& /dev/null
% sleep $appointed-time; ls moon
lrwxrwxrwx 31 Aug  6 23:50 moon -> lighting-the-pitch
% grep friend /etc/passwd; grep king /etc/passwd
friend:*:8260:101:Peasent:/afs/spain/palace:/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
king:*:8260:101:King of Spain:/afs/spain/palace:/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/tcsh
% sed "s/friend/xxx/g" -e "s/prince/friend/g" -e "s/xxx/prince/g" /etc/passwd

sing((prince && pauper),(junior && whopper));
get_world_makeup(); -> SILVER && COPPER
take(POSITION,change,out_of_own_volition);
next_time: while (you == drool && in == pizza_line) {
             /* Remember */ sleep(200); make_pizza();
	     if (King_of_Spain() != "rushes") break; }

Once I was the King of main(); /* now I eat htonl(3.14159) */
find /ways -type off-handed -purpose improve-us
echo "@b(I was the King of main()!)" | zwrite you # now I eat htonl(3.14159)
SPOOLER.MOXY-FRUVOUS.ORG...  Printer Error: may need attention! (paper jam)

Elliot Schwartz / <elliot@mit.edu> / February 5, 1997.