I love it!
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: <OT> MS Error message Haikus
> On Friday 07 September 2001 13:52 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > Subject: FW: Microsloth Error Message Haikus
> >
> > In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
Error
> > messages with Haiku poetry messages.
> >
> > Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three
lines,
> > 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second,
five
> > in the third.
> >
> > Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a
> > wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity - the
> > essence of Zen:
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> >-
> >
> > Your file was so big.
> > It might be very useful.
> > But now it is gone.
> >
> > The Web site you seek
> > Cannot be located,
> > but Countless more exist.
> >
> > Chaos reigns within.
> > Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> > Order shall return.
> >
> > Program aborting:
> > Close all that you have worked on.
> > You ask far too much.
> >
> > Windows NT crashed.
> > I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> > No one hears your screams.
> >
> > Yesterday it worked.
> > Today it is not working.
> > Windows is like that.
> >
> > First snow, then silence.
> > This thousand-dollar screen dies
> > So beautifully.
> >
> > The Tao that is seen
> > Is not the true Tao-until
> > You bring fresh toner.
>
> And More:
>
> Three things are certain:
> Death, taxes, and lost data.
> Guess which has occurred.
>
> Everything is gone;
> Your life's work has been destroyed.
> Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
>
> The code was willing,
> It considered your request,
> But the chips were weak.
>
> Printer not ready.
> Could be a fatal error.
> Have a pen handy?
>
> Errors have occurred.
> We won't tell you where or why.
> Lazy programmers.
>
> Server's poor response.
> Not quick enough for browser.
> Timed out, plum blossom.
>
> This site has been moved.
> We'd tell you where, but then we'd
> have to delete you.
>
> wind catches lily,
> scattering petals to the wind:
> segmentation fault
>
> ABORTED effort:
> Close all that you have.
> You ask way too much.
>
> Stay the patient course
> Of little worth is your ire
> The network is down
>
> You step in the stream,
> but the water has moved on.
> This page is not here.
>
>
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> + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 09/07/01
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>
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> "If your computer speaks English it was probably made in Japan."
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