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... I suppose it was only a matter of time.

Strangely, this is one of the more coherently *constructed* pieces of Devine's writing, possibly because most of it is a straight summary of Arndt's book. She still pulls the usual last-paragraph-descent-into-logic!fail, but at least this time it'd be hard to get any FURTHER into crazy right-wing territory in so doing.

Today, i steal the poetry from someone else's post:

copperbadge posted A truly awesome poem today.

The Symbolic Poem
by Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese

< > !* ' ' #
^ " ` $$-
!*=@$_
%*< > ~ #4
&[ ]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

This 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.

A poll conducted among readers of InFocus magazine, where it was originally published, established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters, though some held out resolutely for "norkie".

Macabre but funny

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