Ode to Keith

[Wade Ward]

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Gloop. Thunderfist is in San Diego. Where art thou, brother. Where's the
supercomputer, troll.

Floop. Hofstadter's for loop. Brilliantly presented.

Dan, dane, Dan-ite. Do you have something against Mormons, because I know
with 100% clarity that people who might turn into stone while others fill
themselves with large, jelly-filled donauts mean mitch caboolean. Tja.
--
Wade Ward
wa**@zaxfuuq.net
"I ain't got time to bleed."

[Richard Bos]

"Wade Ward" <za*****@invalid.netwrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Gloop. Thunderfist is in San Diego. Where art thou, brother. Where's the
supercomputer, troll.

Floop. Hofstadter's for loop. Brilliantly presented.

Dan, dane, Dan-ite. Do you have something against Mormons, because I know
with 100% clarity that people who might turn into stone while others fill
themselves with large, jelly-filled donauts mean mitch caboolean. Tja.

Utter, utter failure. You are not a good enough poet to be admitted to
social society, and you are not even bad enough to be a Vogon. I advise
slitting your wrists with the tip of your quill.

Richard

[Chris Thomasson]

"Richard Bos" <rl*@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nlwrote in message
news:46*****************@news.xs4all.nl...

"Wade Ward" <za*****@invalid.netwrote:

[...]

Utter, utter failure. You are not a good enough poet to be admitted to
social society, and you are not even bad enough to be a Vogon.

LOL!

I advise slitting your wrists with the tip of your quill.

Well, that could end up hurting him: We don't want anything like that.
Perhaps next time he gets one of his brilliant idea's, something will
suddenly jump up and slap him clear across the face... A quick sting is
better than cutting veins!

ouch!

[Chris Thomasson]

"Wade Ward" <za*****@invalid.netwrote:

Ode to Keith
Push, pop, and pope.
Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis. What's that mean, troll.

Where's the supercomputer, troll.

[...]

http://www.sdsc.edu/

[Tak-Shing Chan]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

[snip]

Dan, dane, Dan-ite.

[snip]

This is not an Ode to Keith!

Tak-Shing

[Default User]

Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Dan's not here man.


Brian

[Keith Thompson]

"Wade Ward" <za*****@invalid.netwrites:

Ode to Keith

[snip]

*yawn*

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[C. Benson Manica]

On Sep 18, 3:51 pm, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

(Apologies if this eventually appears twice; my regular news server is
having one of its bad days.)

[John Bode]

On Sep 18, 5:04 am, "Wade Ward" <[e-mail]:

Ode to Keith

[snip...whatever that was]

What the hell was that all about?

[Army1987]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:04:55 -0700, Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis.

It has, whatever a Stichwortverzeichnis is.

For example,
int i;
for (i=0; i<8; i++) putchar(i["*plonk*\n"]);
is one.

What's that mean, troll.

As we say in Italy, "è il bue che dice cornuto all'asino".
(Literally "it is the ox who calls the donkey horny").

--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
If you're sending e-mail from a Windows machine, turn off Microsoft's
stupid “Smart Quotes� feature. This is so you'll avoid sprinkling garbage
characters through your mail. -- Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen

[Richard Heathfield]

C. Benson Manica said:

On Sep 18, 3:51 pm, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

>*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

--
Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
Email: -www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999

[Richard Harter]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:44:34 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<rj*@see.sig.invalidwrote:

>C. Benson Manica said:

>On Sep 18, 3:51 pm, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

>>*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

In a poetry contest would that be a high coup?

Richard Harter, cr*@tiac.net
http://home.tiac.net/~cri, http://www.varinoma.com
But the rhetoric of holistic harmony can generate into a kind of
dotty, Prince Charles-style mysticism. -- Richard Dawkins

[pete]

Tak-Shing Chan wrote:

>
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

[snip]

Dan, dane, Dan-ite.

[snip]

This is not an Ode to Keith!

I noticed that too.

--
pete

[Old Wolf]

On Sep 19, 8:35 am, "C. Benson Manica" <[e-mail]:

>
Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

The last line has six syllables

[Old Wolf]

On Sep 19, 9:04 am, John Bode <[e-mail]:

On Sep 18, 5:04 am, "Wade Ward" <[e-mail]:

Ode to Keith

[snip...whatever that was]

What the hell was that all about?

Keith Richards, judging by the content

[user923005]

On Sep 18, 2:44 pm, Richard Heathfield <[e-mail]:

C. Benson Manica said:

On Sep 18, 3:51 pm, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

A whinging twit moans...

>From the bottom of killfiles

does it make a sound?

[C. Benson Manica]

On Sep 18, 7:02 pm, Old Wolf <[e-mail]:

On Sep 19, 8:35 am, "C. Benson Manica" <[e-mail]:

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

The last line has six syllables

with wonDROUS aplomb.

An off-topic post -
a feeble compliment, but
not a real haiku.

:-)

[Keith Thompson]

Richard Heathfield <rj*@see.sig.invalidwrites:

C. Benson Manica said:

>On Sep 18, 3:51 pm, Keith Thompson <[e-mail]:

>>*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

Thompson reflects on
Meaningful language questions,
Not the mayfly troll.

Trolls and poets both
Gobble up late summer days.
Let's move on. (But thanks.)

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

[Army1987]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:25:14 +0200, Army1987 wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:04:55 -0700, Wade Ward wrote:

>Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis.

It has, whatever a Stichwortverzeichnis is.

For example,
int i;
for (i=0; i<8; i++) putchar(i["*plonk*\n"]);
is one.

Of course, one could argue that for is defined as "do that until
expression2 is false", and this definition doesn't care whether it
is trivial to prove that it will become false at the eighth
iterations. But then, I don't know of any programming language
which has true BlooP-like bounded loops (nor I can see what the
usefulness of that would be). It's been a long time since I last
programmed on a Commodore 64, but I don't remember about
FOR I = 1 TO 0 doing anything different from an endless loop.
And if I understand correctly, one could pass an object of a class
with a custom iterator to Python's for, so in principle it is not
required to halt.

--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
If you're sending e-mail from a Windows machine, turn off Microsoft's
stupid “Smart Quotes� feature. This is so you'll avoid sprinkling garbage
characters through your mail. -- Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen

[Richard Bos]

Army1987 <ar******@NOSPAM.itwrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:04:55 -0700, Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

Bloop. It isn't so much that I don't know what a bloop is, but more the
case that the C Programming Language doesn't have it in the
Stichwortverzeichnis.

It has, whatever a Stichwortverzeichnis is.

No, it hasn't, because a Stichwordverzeichnis is a keyword index, and
the ISO C Standard never mentions Bloops by name, let alone as a keyword
in its index. Of course, anybody who wants to take himself seriously as
a programmer should know what the three talking ducks are, even so.

What's that mean, troll.

As we say in Italy, "è il bue che dice cornuto all'asino".
(Literally "it is the ox who calls the donkey horny").

Not horny, surely, but "having had the horns put on his head"? That
image exists in English, as well.

Richard

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

[comp.lang.c] Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.orgwrote:

*yawn*

Keith, a keen guru
cleaving through pointless drivel
with wonderful aplomb.

(Fortunately I don't get paid for my poetry either.)

--
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cbmanica(at)gmail.com |
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sdf.lonestar.org | Google groups, due to rampant unchecked spam.

[santosh]

Wade Ward wrote:

Ode to Keith

Push, pop, and pope.

<snip>

You remind me of the infamous "werty."

[Army1987]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:44:50 +0000, Richard Bos wrote:

Army1987 <ar******@NOSPAM.itwrote:
No, it hasn't, because a Stichwordverzeichnis is a keyword index

So it hasn't them in it. I kinda guessed it was a nonsense word or
something irrelevant.

Of course, anybody who wants to take himself seriously as
a programmer should know what the three talking ducks are, even so.

"BlooP, FlooP, and GlooP are not *trolls*, talking ducks, or the
sounds made by a sinking ship" (emphasis added). LOL.

(In Italian that was translated as "CicloL, CicloI and CicloH
aren't cyclopes, brands of washing powders, or sounds made by a
steam train", "ciclo" being the Italian word for loop.)

What's that mean, troll.

As we say in Italy, "è il bue che dice cornuto all'asino".
(Literally "it is the ox who calls the donkey horny").

Not horny, surely, but "having had the horns put on his head"? That
image exists in English, as well.

Usually in Italian "cornuto" means "being cheated on by one's
spouse", but in that sentence it has its literal meaning, "with
horns". Once I found a similar English phrase such as "[something]
telling [something else] it is black", but I can't remember what
the [something]s were.
--
Army1987 (Replace "NOSPAM" with "email")
If you're sending e-mail from a Windows machine, turn off Microsoft's
stupid “Smart Quotes� feature. This is so you'll avoid sprinkling garbage
characters through your mail. -- Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen

[Philip Potter]

Army1987 wrote:

Usually in Italian "cornuto" means "being cheated on by one's
spouse", but in that sentence it has its literal meaning, "with
horns". Once I found a similar English phrase such as "[something]
telling [something else] it is black", but I can't remember what
the [something]s were.

The pot, and the kettle.

I had a friend who revelled in making complicated versions of popular sayings,
and he came up with "The Bose-Einstein condensate calling the
Yttrium-Barium-Copper Oxide cold".

--
Philip Potter pgp <atdoc.ic.ac.uk

[Wade Ward]

Where's your supercomputer, troll?

What are its capabilities?

If you don't tell me, you'll go home to find Elliot eating out of your
fridge. He's different than I am. I kill a person first in my mind, and
usually pardon.

Elliot's risk-averse.
--
Wade Ward
wa**@zaxfuuq.net
"I ain't got time to bleed."

[Malcolm McLean]

"Wade Ward" <za*****@invalid.netwrote in message
news:j_******************************@comcast.com. ..

Where's your supercomputer, troll?

What are its capabilities?

If you don't tell me, you'll go home to find Elliot eating out of your
fridge. He's different than I am. I kill a person first in my mind, and
usually pardon.

Elliot's risk-averse.

Your posts are getting steadily more bizarre.

I very rarely plonk people, but really. This is a technical discussion
group. Please keep topical and civil.

--
Free games and programming goodies.
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~bgy1mm

[Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood]

Groovy hepcat Wade Ward was jivin' in comp.lang.c on Tue, 18 Sep 2007
8:04 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

Ode to Keith

[Snip.]

Ladies (if there are any here) and gentlemen, before I plonk the
thread once and for all, I'd just like to remind you all not to feed
the trolls. If they get used to getting a free meal, our beloved
newsgroup will become infested with the beasts, and we'll never get rid
of them.
I know some of you are having fun playing with them, but please
remember that trolls are wild bores. They can be dangerous, and are
best left alone.
Thankyou and goodnight!

--
Dig the sig!

----------- Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood ------------
Ain't I'm a dawg!!