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Original song |
You can call me Al |
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Original artist |
Paul Simon |
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Filk author |
Mirian Crzig Lennox |
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Intro |
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You can call me K6voA72JsP39Zq9j5llL
"A man traceroutes to a site, he says
`Why is Sprintlink in the middle now?
Why is Sprintlink in the middle;
The number of hops is so large.
I need a real net connection,
I need a T3 to my bedroom,
Don't want to end up a 300-baud modem
In a BBS graveyard.'
"Netsurfer, Netsurfer,
Tags in the phosphor-light,
Still under construction, my own home page;
Mr. Lynx-user, Lynx-user says,
`Get these inline GIFs away from me!
You know I don't find net.porn amusing anymore...'
"If you send your public key,
I can send you PGP mail.
I can call you `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy',
And `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy' when you call me
You can call me K6voA72JsP39Zq9j5llL.'
"A man downloads a file,
He says, `why am I short of disk space?
Got a tiny, little amount of disk space,
And wo, this file is so big.
Why's it taking so long to connect?
What if I die first?
Who'll tell me what all these hash-marks mean,
Now that all the text has scrolled
Away, Away?'
He logged back onto IRC
And talked to some suspicious, sleazy character
Who claimed to be a high-school girl,
All along, along,
There was tiny.sex with logfiles
Later published on the world wide web.
"If you send your public key,
I can send you PGP mail.
I can call you `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy',
And `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy' when you call me
You can call me K6voA72JsP39Zq9j5llL.'
"A man follows a link,
It's a link to a strange URL,
Maybe it's the CERN URL,
Maybe it's somewhere far away,
He can't read the home page,
His browser's not Netscape,
There's unsupported tags,
He's unassaulted by the blinking,
of blinking text,
Patterns in the background,
Centered GIFs, and other cruft.
He looks around, around,
He sees the earth in the Mosaic icon
Spinning in infinity,
He says, `Hey! Wake me up when it's done!'
"If you send your public key,
I can send you PGP mail.
I can call you `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy',
And `8F243ls7Qlx79Lw9Mhsy' when you call me
You can call me K6voA72JsP39Zq9j5llL.'
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