Fun with UNIX...

If you type these in from the csh (c shell): in Unix you really do get these responses. % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. % got a light? No match. % sleep with me bad character % man: Why did you get a divorce? man: Too many arguments. % make 'heads or tails of all this' Make: Don't know how to make heads or tails of all this. Stop. % make sense Make: Don't know how to make sense. Stop. % make mistake Make: Don't know how to make mistake. Stop. % make bottle.open Make: Don't know how to make bottle.open. Stop. % \(- (-: Command not found. % make light Make: Don't know how to make light. Stop. % date me You are not superuser: date not set Thu Jan 09 02:51:30 PDT 2003 % man rear No manual entry for rear. % If I had a ) for every dollar Clinton spent, what would I have? Too many )'s. % * How would you describe Clinton *: Ambiguous. % %Vice-President %Vice-President: No such job. % ls Meese-Ethics Meese-Ethics not found % "How would you rate Clinton's senility? Unmatched ". % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. | % ^How did the^sex change operation go? Modifier failed. % who is my match? No match. % set i="Democratic_Platform";mkdir $i;chmod 000 $i;ls $i Democratic_Platform unreadable % awk "Polly, the ship is sinking" awk: syntax error near line 1 awk: bailing out near line % 'thou shalt not commit adultery' thou shalt not commit adultery: Command not found.

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