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To: Scumbria who wrote (140838)	4/27/2001 12:53:59 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

To a Mouse: On trying to log onto Internet via Modem to the Scottish National University microVax cluster, November 1785. Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, You cause panic in my breastie! Thou fillst my screen sae hasty Wi' bickering brattle! I was be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murdering pattle! I'm truly sorry to see my union broken by computer dominion an' justifies my ill opinion which makes thee rattle all I seekst my sweet companion An' fellow mortal Her name is Jessie, fair I guess I niver did yet see Jess her Email sings o' golden hair, her fingers nimble as she types in caps and bold... I hope she's no old! Now my screen is bare and waste an' weary I am come at last I canna log on the VAX cluster for students load 'em In droves and counts past muster they block the modem. Och beastie, thou art not to blame that I am turnin' nae insane The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still tho art blest, compared wi' me! I'll use the hand that toucheth thee to access Jessie's floppy drives I do vow yet. -- or gie up all intercourse on Internet! Copyright © 1994 David W. Galbraith, Tucson, Arizona