From mjd@plover.com Thu Sep 6 02:53:38 EDT 2001 Article: 350705 of talk.bizarre Path: newshog.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: [N]unnify From: ([*] Der Eisenhauer) Followup-To: misc.test Organization: Eaters of Wisdom X-Project: Destroy the world Keywords: heartbeat, indistinct, leach, osteopathy Originator: mjd@plover.com Message-ID: <3b96d396.5eba$158@news.op.net> X-OpNet-Trace: news1.op.net 999740310 24250.344 plover.com i/quentin c/local Lines: 60 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 01:38:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.29.195.22 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 999740311 207.29.195.22 (Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:38:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:38:31 EDT Xref: bad-news.newsread.com talk.bizarre:350705 ``Are you sure this will work?'' I asked. It still seemed like a dumb idea. ``It worked for Whoopi Goldberg, didn't it?'' ``She's a woman.'' ``It worked for Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane.'' ``I cannot believe the degree of bullshit here.'' ``Hold still, your wimple is crooked.'' ... ``OK, what do you think?'' I looked in the mirror. ``Not a chance.'' We stood gazing at the reflection. ``Maybe if you cut off your whiskers?'' ``Try it and you'll be visiting the polar icecap from the underside.'' ``Just a suggestion.'' ... More mirror gazing. ``I think you look good. Nobody will know.'' ``I'm too big.'' ``Don't be so negative. I bet a lot of those women weigh as much as you. Sedentary lifestyle and all that.'' ``I'm gray.'' ``Lots of people are gray. And the habit creates an expectation of black-and-whiteness that causes the eye to skip right over your grayness.'' ``Will the nuns have flippers? Or will the habit create an expectation of walrushood that causes the eye to skip right over them?'' ``I cannot believe what a downer you are being. Would it hurt to try?'' ``I'm starting to think it won't be worth the trouble just to find out whether or not nuns taste like penguins.'' -- @P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{ @p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord ($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&& close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print