% Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 13:55:24 1995 reformatted disks make sodalite weep loudly give us /usr10 Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 13:56:29 1995 Rice paddy peasant Works all day to make the paste Paste that's white like zinc Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 13:57:01 1995 new law on soda all walls must be zinc haiku or else account gone % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 13:58:19 1995 Angel Lucifer Banished to the netherworld For his love of zinc % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 13:54:51 1995 Bootleg cassette tape Poor recording media Zinc oxide is crap. % Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 13:58:41 1995 Ancient promethius, daily bereft of his liver, he gave zinc to mankind. % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:01:55 1995 Starry Bethlehem, Beware prophets bearing gold, Frankincense and zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:00:49 1995 Christmastime is here Snow falls, peacefully, slowly On great cliffs of zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:02:28 1995 make it stop! no more! make it go away now, please! I can't take much more! % Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:01:56 1995 five syllable line rain falls like the fallout clous ob zinc referance % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:03:24 1995 Geordan does not know The true meaning of the zinc Perhaps he can learn % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:04:22 1995 Waiting on the dock Shipment from Colombia Twelve kilos of zinc % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:04:31 1995 Walling dark dungeons Like zinc on a hot tin roof Poem makes no sense % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:03:47 1995 zinc has weight 30 its symbol is Zn now will you all leave? % Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:04:04 1995 falling from the sky, radioactive fallout, zinc dust in the wind % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:05:55 1995 Evil Fu Manchu Plans to terrorize the world, Stealing all the zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:05:54 1995 zinc after copper though but before gallium above cadmium. % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:06:29 1995 Mean Darth Vader said, I find your lack of faith dis- Turbing. What a zinc! % Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:05:59 1995 walls getting pointless when it ends once and for all I'll be truly glad Boredcast Message from 'aaron': Mon Dec 11 14:07:25 1995 no zinc refernece Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:07:40 1995 Um... Signed by Zinc Tungsten. % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:07:07 1995 Daniel Holliman Does not know that Gilman St is a zinc haven % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:07:42 1995 this has naught about that wondrous element i could avoid. zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:08:11 1995 Gilman Street Restrooms Contain no rolls of toiletry, Force you to use zinc % Boredcast Message from 'scotsman': Mon Dec 11 14:08:11 1995 Toilet paper hurts When it's made of zinc it's worse But Charmin wins out. % Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 14:07:21 1995 seven hundred K it turns to liquid river hot has hell that zinc % Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:10:02 1995 blojo and erich, pinned to wooden crosses, nailed up there with zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:11:03 1995 Mankind's big project, Virtual reality, Building worlds of zinc % Boredcast Message from 'agee': Mon Dec 11 14:11:31 1995 Boyhood memories Tonka fire engine. Vroom! Made of steel, zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:11:05 1995 more than twenty grams ev'ry centimeter cubed and it's a metal. % Boredcast Message from 'danh': Mon Dec 11 14:13:22 1995 Fall rain comes gently pond ripples with falling leaves fingers drop like stones. % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:13:25 1995 "Heal me, Jesus" Says the leper as his nose Falls into the zinc % Boredcast Message from 'peterm': Mon Dec 11 14:13:30 1995 pincushiond blojo, impaled with many zinc spikes, finally speechless. % Boredcast Message from 'ausman': Mon Dec 11 14:12:40 1995 meaning of word zinc comes from a German word "Zink" origin obscure % Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:12:48 1995 coating outdoor nails protection from winter's rains zinc useful for all % Boredcast Message from 'chiapet': Mon Dec 11 14:12:05 1995 most precious, i think its mere thought turns me all pink don't throw knives at zinc % Boredcast Message from 'geordan': Mon Dec 11 14:13:53 1995 nuclear weapons cause total mass destruction fusion into zinc. % Boredcast Message from 'danh': Mon Dec 11 14:14:18 1995 melted brie is yum but it tastes much better when i stir with his tongue % Boredcast Message from 'blojo': Mon Dec 11 14:15:38 1995 World War II shortage Housewives donate pots and pans Get zinc to the troops % Boredcast Message from 'aspolito': Mon Dec 11 14:15:19 1995 wrintg hiku on zinc is easier than doing work. procrastinate. % Boredcast Message from 'saarp': Mon Dec 11 14:17:29 1995 zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc. zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc. zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc. % Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:17 ... no zinc referance well, except for the first one you can't hide from zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!peterm (ttys0) at 14:17 ... geordan is writhing, moaning so pitifully, molten gold coats him. % Boredcast Message from soda!agee (ttyqz) at 14:19... You say, "What is life?" Before you answer that, ask Yourself "What is zinc?" % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:19 ... enough about zinc. it's time for telebears now. sign up for classes. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:19... Important warning: DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN ZINC Or you'll regret it. % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:20 ... Zinc is the only element you can use as a conditioner. % Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:21 ... life is but fleating but zinc, zinc last forever trust your life in zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!saarp (ttyqw) at 14:21 ... haiku haiku hai- ku haiku haiku haiku haiku haiku zinc. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:21... Mohandas Gandhi Went on many hunger strikes, Always ate his zinc. % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:21 ... Molten zinc is fun to give to a child at a small playground. % Boredcast Message from soda!agee (ttyqz) at 14:22... Haiku about zinc Can become old really fast. Woe to those annoyed. % Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:23 ... Pulp Finction has drugs, hamburgers and violence. but it lacks the zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:23 ... Those who are annoyed should have zinc in their diets or at least fiber. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:23... What do you expect, When you go throughout your life Never touching zinc? % Boredcast Message from soda!mehlhaff (ttypA) at 14:25... walling zinc haiku is a sign of great boredom just go get a life ! % Boredcast Message from soda!peterm (ttys0) at 14:23 ... in Hamburg's hot fires, molten zinc flowed fast downhill, forming hot rivers. % Boredcast Message from soda!lwall (1?console) at 14:25... From: Akasha <akasha@apple.com> I once made pennies coating them in lab with zinc some gold, some silver. Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:25 ... the power of zinc is strong. I got in all of my classes today. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:26... Letters & Science Has such strict requirements Can't pass without zinc. Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:27 ... I break free of your chains! I write in jagged form like e e cummings % Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 14:26 ... zinc is in my blood zinc sustains my beating heart when pricked, i bleed zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:27... Byzantine Problem When to synchronize, attack Capture all the zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:28... Superconductive Crystal lattice finely tuned Quantum Zincanics % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 14:29 ... zinc haikus are scarce except on the walls of soda where zinc reigns supreme % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:29 ... insanity, like zinc, runs rampant through soda's mindless, hopeless walls. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:30... Figlet the word 'zinc' Watch it fill your CRT Lovely ASCII art % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysy) at 14:31 ... I've had enough zinc. I'm going to fail physics. Try to learn quantum. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:32... L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics' secret code Teaching about zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:41... Twin Peaks finale David Lynch's twisted dream Zinc allegory % Boredcast Message from soda!ausman (ttysE) at 14:43... ari cannot die until most wonderful sense surrounded by zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:44... Christian communion Holy wafer made of zinc Put it on your tongue. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:45... Posting news is fun Erotica - dot - sensual Don't forget - dot - zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 14:46 ... it is most complete from a to the last one, zinc we call it Centrum. % Boredcast Message from soda!ausman (ttysE) at 14:46... wear a zinc helmet protect your most priceless head die in style at least % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:49... Superhero flees X-ray vision, gift of flight Powers blocked by zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:50... Ivory soap is pure, Ninety-nine point forty-four Undefiled zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!aspolito (ttyqo) at 14:50 ... need larger title zinc will not help me at all latex is cryptic % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:51... "Barefoot in the Park"? Neil Simon sucks my dick. He should write of zinc. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 14:59... TV commercial "Zinc it does a body good" I will grow up strong. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:01... Look, here is your brain. Now here is your brain on zinc. Any questions, kid? % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:06... Perfect tokyo time Must by cheap zinc umbrella Ward off acid rain Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:06... ^by^buy % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 15:06 ... blojo needs whipping take a zinc whip and flog him over and over % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:07 ... a cat of nine tails made completely out of zinc lands on your back thrice. Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:07 ... Okay, all walls must contain a reference to zinc and to whips. % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:09... Bubbling molten zinc Pours across my naked skin Pain strikes like a whip % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:09 ... zinc whips are fun for flogging, beating and other assorted actions % Boredcast Message from soda!geordan (ttysu) at 15:10 ... walls must have at least four references to James Bond movies and praseodymium. Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:11... Jaws shoots violin Praseodymium gun Diamonds forever % Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 15:18 ... contractor from hell did not document his zinc work has fallen off % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:20... Life-threatening choice Which door will he open up, Tiger or the Zinc? % Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:15:35 1995 tongue on clitoris i savour my lover's zinc starry autumn night % Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:14:24 1995 i like plastic glocks kalashnikov's rifle to shoot i need zinc % Boredcast Message from 'erich': Mon Dec 11 11:17:46 1995 zinc in my bloodstream gluconeogenesis endless flow of life -blojo % Boredcast Message from soda!chiapet (ttysB) at 15:24 ... there is no zinc here there is no zinc at my job there is a large void % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 15:26... Headbanging music Play it really fucking loud I love Nine Inch Zinc % Boredcast Message from soda!scotsman (ttyqD) at 15:34 ... Saar sleep in pooled zinc Breathes in the noxious fumes and lives to repeat it. % Boredcast Message from soda!jon (ttypM) at 16:39 ... ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! ZINC! % Boredcast Message from soda!blojo (ttypX) at 16:40... Fifteen years from now Zinc is standard currency Rich society ---- <pedro> blojo is blinded <pedro> zinc is standard coinage now <pedro> look at a nickel % From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> For young children's health Immunosuppressants bad, But zinc opposite. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19990418/ts/health_zinc_1.html % From: ESP <evangelo@pigdog.org> Shipwreck survivor either saves his load or flees. Which one? Zinc or swim? % From: Nick Moffitt <nick@zork.net> Mortal Superman Bad guys taking all the zinc Now, kneel before Zod % From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Healthful supplement present here where food's prepared: it's the kitchen zinc. % From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> Sensations coming from metallic reactions: a zinking feeling. Gossips and costly seagoing vessels conjoined thus: loose lips, zinc ships. Rene Descartes finds his elemental self: I zinc, therefore I am. Horrible zinc puns you would expect from Peter Neumann, not from me. % From: ESP <evangelo@pigdog.org> Enough! This is the Worst form of humor. I won't zinc to your level. % From: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net> On invoking Godwin Internet arguments end We zinc heil % Broadcast Message from woot@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 10:49 ... My haiku is poor But yet not poor enough to insult you, you git. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:50 ... today at North Park NBC filmed a pilot zinc was the focus % Broadcast Message from spork@zork (/dev/ttyp9) at 10:51 ... you steal woot the word come tell me something other now i fit zinc in this line Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:53 ... did you miss schoen's words on how zinc haiku are fixed? obstinate buffon! % Broadcast Message from spork@zork (/dev/ttyp9) at 10:54 ... yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc zinc Broadcast Message from woot@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 10:55 ... I think that your zinc Is not the true aussie zinc Our zinc is quite the zinc. Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 10:55 ... if I did not speak, you might think your zinc was good what could be less true? % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 20:40 ... I just ate some food-- Szechuan Pork and Broccoli It is high in zinc. % Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork (/dev/ttyp7) at 22:10 ... Bluish white metal, magnesium-cadmium, number thirty: zinc. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 8:03 ... Mick's Sticky Fingers O, can't ya hear me knockin'? brown sugar lacks zinc. % Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork (/dev/ttyp7) at 10:20 ... lintian; dupload; Another .deb on its way: zinc in Incoming. % Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya1) at 10:22 ... Oh, advogato: My diary is zincless And yet it is read. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttypc) at 13:05 ... the album is done symphony center is next to zinc, perchance dream % Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya1) at 13:07 ... Sweltering Sunday Cover me in zinc oxide Hide me from the sun Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttypc) at 13:09 ... careful what you ask baby ass-salve is scary-- DESITIN is zinc % <BenB> zinc is not purple <BenB> zinc is not blue, red or green <BenB> it's just very zinc % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:47 ... Alas, o, alas, very sorrowful are these mourning zinc haiku. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttypc) at 0:49 ... but don't get idears we're not ga-ga betwixt us just generally Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:49 ... Your disclaimer is fair enough, and helpful, yes, but where is the zinc? % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:50 ... I have very bad romantic stuff happening just last week (no zinc) % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttypc) at 0:50 ... get off my back, schoen there is zinc enough for all twice it's here: zinc zinc % Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork (/dev/ttyp7) at 0:51 ... "Where's the zinc?", asked Seth, and brought back memories of horrid TV ads. % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:51 ... pedro saves his zinc, stockpiling so as to have enough for later. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 0:54 ... eyebrow, eyebrow said pedro the zinc stockpiler you don't know the half % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:53 ... I'll make ramen, not a significant source of protein, C, or zinc. % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 0:55 ... I post diaries about isopropanol, zinc would be more fun. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 0:56 ... lacking zinc and C I wonder if ramen lacks Python, Lisp, and Perl? % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:01 ... for all Seth's zinc, he walls inappropriately (I counted that thrice) Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:02 ... This is not soda: one's allowed to wall something non-zinc-haikuish. % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:03 ... But I feel that, more or less, if you're walling in haiku, wall zinc poems. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:03 ... stephane queries zen Seth answers in clever form I'm a zinc lozenge Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya3) at 1:06 ... Zen, status report! Ahead standard by seven! Take us to the zinc! % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:06 ... i sit on the couch walling from the yellow seat which is quite unlike zinc % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:09 ... Advogato Prime! logarithmus dualis Seth's brain is pure zinc % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:10 ... I have found the bit from Professor R. Hartshorne: QED, et c. % Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya3) at 1:12 ... At the current rate zinc fortunes will beat pigdog Beaujolais to that! % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:12 ... Sons of bitches keep Your mouth shut, says Dan Rather His hair like grey zinc. Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:15 ... get down, get down, get the fuck down says Harrison you like EBN? % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:13 ... I'm from the future it is three-twenty-three here I zinc I need sleep % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:14 ... I must ask Robin whether he will grant the right to publish his piece. Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:15 ... send him some e mail it's not like he is sleeping he hacks on code now % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:16 ... EBN is awesome i saw them live -- two concerts gardner post kicks ass % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:18 ... it appeared to me that steph was quoting a group called EBN. Zinc! Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:19 ... judicious, even artful use of that one last syllable for zinc! Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:23 ... it's not every day that Seth David Schoen calls your zinc haiku artful % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:19 ... i showed crackmonkey the tape. he was tres amused. zinc beaujolais gar fnord Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya3) at 1:20 ... Stephane's haiku Left me feeling uneasy Her rhythm was good % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:22 ... NetHack message says: "You have an uneasy feeling." -- You're lacking zinc. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:23 ... in the sun i shall bask with zinc oxide on my nose thanks to crackmonkey % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttyab) at 1:24 ... This Seth David Schoen Should go by merely 'David'. Standard Linuxcare. % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:24 ... Python ought to give us a function for dual logs: math.ld() % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:25 ... There was a David Schoen once, and I'm named for him: read my old web site. But you're right -- I do seem to deviate from the corporate standards. % Broadcast Message from nick@zork (/dev/ttya3) at 1:25 ... Martin Pool wrote me "Whether it wants to or not" His zinc is quite strong. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:29 ... i wrote two great poems somehow i did something wrong their zinc is now gone % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 1:30 ... I actually did write zinc haiku about how Lisa broke up -- <sigh> % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:31 ... eyes getting heavy hard to keep open, focused like zinc weights were there % Broadcast Message from stephane@zork (/dev/ttya7) at 1:32 ... when will things be okay? i sound like a silly child life is hard like zinc % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 1:34 ... I zinc this is it: adieu, adieu, to you, and you, and you. goodnight. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp2) at 23:20 ... mr. bad breaks rules his signature's seven lines bad mr. bad, bad % <pedro> agee knows not truth <pedro> for zinc haiku are timeless <pedro> woe to him unwise % Broadcast Message from schoen@zork (/dev/ttyp4) at 23:34 ... Understanding is a three-edged sword, forged, no doubt, of a zinc alloy. % Broadcast Message from lankhmar@zork (/dev/ttyp3) at 18:56 ... Postfix is dandy; makes syslog wall remotely. Walls (and zinc) are zork. % Broadcast Message from woot@zork (/dev/ttypb) at 18:57 ... Emad, together with me, decided that no more zinc was needed. % Broadcast Message from muse@zork (/dev/ttyp0) at 15:03 ... tech support haiku inject inquiries with zinc dial 5-7-5 % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/ttyp6) at 23:24 ... eyes tired, burning all my zinc is worn away tom waits plays late may! % <wikkit> In an odd twist of fate, rec.humor.oracle.d has taken quite well to the concept of zinc haiku. <Beaujolais> oh yeah? <wikkit> GW De Lacey: <wikkit> Puddles. Leaves are brown <wikkit> Sun and surf a memory <wikkit> No need for cream'd zinc. <wikkit> Jeff Zeitlin: <wikkit> In RHOD one can post <wikkit> on subjects diverse and strange <wikkit> even the kitchen zinc. % <wikkit> Mary had a lamb. <wikkit> It ate a bunch of bad zinc. <wikkit> It will die real quick. % <wikkit> Zinc is to the left, <wikkit> now it's to the right of me, <wikkit> someone stop it, please. % <wikkit> I'm not hydrogen, <wikkit> I am not potassium, <wikkit> I am a bit zinc. % <wikkit> Airport codes stupid. <wikkit> Planes crash in Iowa fields. <wikkit> Zinc killed Big Bopper. % <wikkit> Even rec.humor.oracle.d in-joke zinc haikus... <wikkit> Hook is a bad troll. <wikkit> He needs to eat much more zinc. <wikkit> Smack him good, Steve-o <wikkit> JIM has one proton. <wikkit> Zinc has many more than that. <wikkit> JIM is more neat, though. % <wikkit> Crackmonkey, who is <wikkit> known as BangTheNunSlowly <wikkit> on chat, showed me zinc. <wikkit> #afda on Slashnet <wikkit> is where I met the zinc man, <wikkit> a San Franciscan. <wikkit> Ask him, Sid, he may <wikkit> be the one who knows why Zinc <wikkit> is haiku goldmine. % <wikkit> Rumors abound that <wikkit> The mighty Oracle's zot <wikkit> is nothing but zinc. % <wikkit> I am offended <wikkit> by attempts to make zinc a <wikkit> special element. <wikkit> (that was by Chris Wesling, not me) <wikkit> as is: <wikkit> Abe Vigoda <wikkit> and Erik Estrada in <wikkit> "Fish and Chips", no zinc. <wikkit> I can't get 5 out of 'abe vigoda', but I probably pronounce it wrong. % <wikkit> JIM is not argon <wikkit> Iridium is not Sid <wikkit> Maybe Ben is zinc % <wikkit> zinc is not in here <wikkit> you are hallucinating <wikkit> examine your head % <wikkit> zinc is poetry <wikkit> like fish follow migrating <wikkit> mammals in the fall % <wikkit> zinc, the other white meat <wikkit> no, wait, that's not right, stop it. <wikkit> zinc, the cheap metal % <wikkit> zinc is the penny! <wikkit> an ugly copper façade, <wikkit> the inside matters. % <wikkit> Make Monkey Fast scheme, <wikkit> Crackmonkey, the brains of it. <wikkit> Just Add Zinc, he says. % <wikkit> Wikkit made them mad, <wikkit> without knowing how or why. <wikkit> Come back, compadres! % <wikkit> Damn, forgot the zinc <wikkit> Kill me know, or forever <wikkit> hold your piece. (gun, duh) % <wikkit> Apocalypse Now, <wikkit> or a few minutes ago, <wikkit> zinc killed this channel. % <wikkit> Next time, warn me, Zinc! <wikkit> I knew I sucked, but how bad <wikkit> was not apparent. % Broadcast Message from kickaha@zork (/dev/pts/15) at 14:35 ... day and night i roam wandering nethack mazes where is the zinc wand? % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/pts/11) at 22:39 ... coffee grounds and zinc mixed with piping hot vapours caf-buzz eternal % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/pts/2) at 14:12 ... a lazy thursday 4:30 can't come too soon i wish i had zinc % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/pts/13) at 11:19 ... slashnet is flakey solar zinc disrupts power only nwall stands % From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> To: crackmonkey@crackmonkey.org Mr . Bad writes: > http://www.msnbc.com/news/474861.asp?cp1=1 > > Ear, Nose, Throat Journal > Says colds could be much shorter: > "Just inhale some zinc." "Zinc ions fill in virus binding sites, so it can't attach to cells!" % Broadcast Message from aaronl@zork (/dev/pts/13) at 11:19 ... Thirtieth Atom Zinc is used in batteries Vraiment Beaujolais! % Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:04:10 -0800 To: Message Of The Day <motd@zork.net> Subject: Re: [/etc/motd] electrical power problem From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> begin Nick Moffitt quotation: > For the paranoid, typing "sync" at the shell helps maintain filesystem > integrity. To promote Zork health, Remedy ready at hand: Take sync frequently. % vhuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (No Subject) (Victor Huang) (pub.haiku.zinc) 2001-01-20 18:38:23-08: gsend/0.99 Ancient, noble zinc: How unhappy that your name Must rhyme with 'NSYNC. % Broadcast Message from pedro@zork (/dev/pts/11) at 7:02 ... in state New Hampshire I seek zinc and find Dartmouth my plane did not burn % <aargh> n judah passing <aargh> craigslist rocking back and forth <aargh> are they zinc powered? % sneakums@pts/16> One pellet contains sneakums@pts/16> two point five percent of the sneakums@pts/16> RDA of zinc. %