[CrackMonkey] Lore: cookie

[Joey Hess]

George J.P. Perry wrote:
> Once upon a time, there was a hack called 'cookie'. This lived in /usr/games on
> Unix, /[some directory i don't remember]/games on Multics, and on most other
> mainframes too.
> 
> >From time to time clueless newbies would notice "hey, there's a games directory
> on this system!" and see a program called 'cookie'. They'd run it. It'd
> seemingly do nothing.
> 
> A few minutes later, suddenly the phrase "I want a cookie" would appear while
> you were merrily working on something else. If you kept typing, the moment you
> pressed the ENTER key nothing would happen -- instead, it'd say "No, I said I
> want a cookie!".  The only way to get back to work was to type the word
> "cookie" (give it what it wanted), press ENTER, then it let go of your keyboard.

Ok, someone write this and I'll get it into bsdgames.

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see shy jo