[ale] witty unix quips (say that 3 times fast!) [OT?]

[Matt Shade]

Some can be found at these links, but below is what you're looking for:

http://jeffcovey.net/linux/humor.html

http://www.solariscentral.org/adm/shellHumor.shtml


% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans


% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.



% rm God
rm: God nonexistent



% ar t God
ar: God does not exist



% ar r God
ar: creating God



% "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence?
--MORE--(8%)               Unmatched ".



% Unmatched ".
Unmatched ".



% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].



% \316 How did the sex change operation go? \316
Modifier failed.



% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.



% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.



% sleep with me
bad character



% got a light?
No match.



--MORE--(15%)               % man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.



% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.



% %blow
%blow: No such job.



% \(-
(-: Command not found.



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



$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found



$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create






Matt





----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Ale" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 21:27
Subject: [ale] witty unix quips (say that 3 times fast!) [OT?]


> I once saw a list of some whitty unix quips or command line errors that
are
> comical.  Has anyone seen this list or could anyone point me to it?  I
can't
> for the life of me find it.  I just tried to do (as an example):
>
> >killall sleep
> sleep: no process killed
>
> and it reminded me of that list.  some of them are hysterical, and I'd
like
> to read it again.  any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> tia,
> CB
>
>
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