OT: Geek poetry

[J. Landman Gay]

Happened across this in my archives. I'd never heard of a waka before.

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The following poem appeared in INFOCUS magazine. The original authors 
were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand 
Rapids, MI.

A poll conducted among INFOCUS readers had established "waka" as the 
proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < and >, though 
some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."

The text of the poem follows:

<> !*''#
^"`$$-
!*=@$_
%*<>~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar underscore,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly bracket comma comma CRASH.


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