Fun_People Archive
17 Apr
Sonnet for Nothing

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 16:03:50 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Sonnet for Nothing

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: "Josh M. Osborne" <stripes@va.pubnix.com>
Archived-by: Derek Cashman (cashman@infi.net)


			"Sonnet for Nothing"
          ( to the tune of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits )
Lyrics by: Jude Charles Giampaolo (giampaol@snowhite.eeap.cwru.edu



(...I want my ATM...)
(...I want my ATM...)
(...I want my ATM...)

Now look at them techs that's the way you do it
You put your packets on the ATM
If that ain't workin' TAXI's the way to do it
Sonnet for nothin' and switches for free
Ah now its working and we UDP it
Lemme tell ya them hubs ain't dumb
Maybe get a BOOTP on your token ring
Maybe get a ICMP on your lan

We gotta install microwave links
Custom router deliveries
We gotta bridge these AARPs
We gotta learn this spanning tree

See the engineer with the Sparc and the NeXTstep
Yeah buddy that's his own pair
That engineer got his own fibre cable
That engineer he's on the air

We gotta install microwave links
Custom router deliveries
We gotta bridge these AARPs
We gotta bridge this spanning tree

I shoulda learned to network a Commodore
I shoulda learned to play that Pong
Linux that PC, it's stickin collisions in the cable
Man we watch those servers run
Now here's an odd frame, what's that? Mail bouncing?
Bangin' on the net like a crazed newbie
If that ain't workin' TAXI's the way to do it
Get your sonnet for nothin' get your switch for free

We gotta install microwave links
Custom router deliveries
We gotta bridge these AARPs
We gotta bridge this spanning tree, FORIL

If that ain't workin' TAXI's the way to do it
You put your packets on the ATM
Ah now its working and we TCP it
Sonnet for nothin' and your switches for free
Sonnet for nothin' and switches for free.

© 1996 Peter Langston