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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Desiderata
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.205209.14871@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:52:09 GMT
- References: <GUY.92Dec22102751@rocannon.harlqn.co.uk>
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- In article <GUY.92Dec22102751@rocannon.harlqn.co.uk> guy@harlqn.co.uk (Guy Snape) writes:
- >I think I saw someone asking about an alternative version of
- >Desiderata here recently. Here's one a friend sent me.
-
- This is from National Lampoon; it's a recent annual (don't know the date,
- but there's a cake that says "Eat Me" on the cover; somethinkth anniversary
- issue I guess) There's also a recorded version of the following on one of
- their albums
-
- >
- >Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
- >And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
- >Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
- >Rotate your tyres.
- >Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
- >And heed well their advice - even though they be turkeys.
- >Know what to kiss - and when.
- >Remember that two wrongs never make a right,
- >But that three do.
- >Wherever possible, put people on 'HOLD'.
- >Be comforted, that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
- >And despite the changing fortunes of time,
- >There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
- >
- > You are a fluke of the universe ...
- > You have no right to be here.
- > Whether you can hear it or not, the universe
- > Is laughing behind your back.
- >
- >
- >Is that what you were looking for, WHOEVER YOU ARE?!
- >
- >Have a COOL YULE, and an inebriated New Year, y'all, love Guy xx
- >
- >Those who like pirate noises say "Aye!" guy@harlqn.co.uk
- >Those who like horsey noises say "Nay!" #|My opinions, not my employer's|#
-
-
- --
- "A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@
- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
-