FileTitle: Poem1796.html
Category: Humor
Type: Poem
Description: Characters
A poll conducted among INFOCUS magazine readers had established "waka" as
the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <, though some
readers held out resolutely for "norkies."
The following poem appeared recently in INFOCUS magazine. The original
authors were Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of
Grand Rapids, MI.
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 under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.