[lfjokes] bang splat poetry

[Adam Shand]

From: Shannon <sylamb at alaska.net>
URL:  http://www.roundsing.org/music/waka-waka.gif (sheet music)

A poll conducted among INFOCUS magazine readers had established "waka" as
the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters < or >.

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