This came from some friends at Chaffey College in Southern California.


Subject: [Fwd: JOKE:  IF DR. SEUSS WAS A SYSTEMS ANALYST]

Stacey Lovell Hughes wrote:
>
> If Dr. Seuss Was a Systems Analyst
>
> If a Packet Hits a Pocket on a Socket on a Port,
> And the Bus Is Interrupted as a Very Last Resort,
> And the Address of the Memory Makes Your Floppy Disk Abort,
> Then the Socket Packet Pocket Has an Error to Report.
>
> If Your Cursor Finds a Menu Item Followed by a Dash,
> And the Double-clicking Icon Puts Your Window in the Trash,
> And Your Data Is Corrupted 'Cause the Index Doesn't Hash,
> Then Your Situation's Hopeless and Your System's Gonna Crash!
>
> If the Label on the Cable on the Table at Your House
> Says the Network Is Connected to the Button on Your Mouse,
> But Your Packets Want to Tunnel on Another Protocol
> That's Repeatedly Rejected by the Printer down the Hall,
> And Your Screen Is All Distorted by the Side Effects of Gauss,
> So Your Icons in the Window Are as Wavy as a Souse,
> Then You May as Well Reboot and Go out with a Bang,
> 'Cause as Sure as I'm a Poet, the Sucker's Gonna Hang!
>
> When the Copy of Your Floppy's Getting Sloppy on the Desk,
> And the Microcode Instructions Cause Unnecessary Risk,
> Then You Have to Flash Your Memory and You'll Want to Ram Your Rom,
> Quickly Turn off the Computer and Be Sure to Tell Your Mom!!!!!