The first time I saw that one, the first line was "Windows NT crashed"! So considerate of them to have gone for two-syllable names so that the haiku could be adapted down the years...
Long, long ago! 1998, in fact. (http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html) And circulated around the Internet by middle-aged men and women alike ever since.
It's quite an adventure reading through that and trying to work out what you then call the symbols to get it to fit the 5-7-5 pattern (I'm sure other people must have felt something similar). As far as I can parse it, it goes "At plus percent sign, semicolon curly brace, hat ampersand", though the last of those is only four syllables.
I got that the first line of yours is "exclamation point" and am guessing the third is either "tilde tilde dot" or "tilde tilde period" depending on whether you count "tilde" as one or two syllables, but the second line has utterly defeated me.
I wonder where I got "hat" from, if it was only called that on the Mac and I never touched one for about twenty years. Possibly one of my university lecturers called it that.
I read my own as "Exclamation mark, backtick colon forward slash, tilde tilde dot". I would always in reality just call a "/" a slash, but somehow while piecing this elaborately woven poem together I managed to forget the syllable scheme I was meant to be using and achieved 5-5-5.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2009-03-12 01:42 am (UTC)Windows has crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No-one hears your screams.
:P
D.F.
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Date: 2009-03-12 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-12 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 12:37 am (UTC)The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
Awesome find!
D.F.
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Date: 2009-03-12 06:49 pm (UTC);{
^&
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Date: 2009-03-12 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-12 07:02 pm (UTC)I got that the first line of yours is "exclamation point" and am guessing the third is either "tilde tilde dot" or "tilde tilde period" depending on whether you count "tilde" as one or two syllables, but the second line has utterly defeated me.
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Date: 2009-03-12 07:08 pm (UTC)I read my own as "Exclamation mark, backtick colon forward slash, tilde tilde dot". I would always in reality just call a "/" a slash, but somehow while piecing this elaborately woven poem together I managed to forget the syllable scheme I was meant to be using and achieved 5-5-5.