Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.religion Subject: Re: Standby indeed, Ron Rizzo! (exclaimed the arndt) Message-ID: <977@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 11:46:53 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.977 Posted: Mon Oct 1 11:46:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Oct-84 04:00:02 EDT References: <3776@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 26 Doth someone summon me? Who conjureth at this ungodly hour?! Arndt? Ken Arndt?? Never heard of it! Oh, wait....yes. I seem to remember: arndts are network gremlins, personifications of data communications anomalies. Ken arndts are a subspecies of arndt, believed by network programmers to be locked into infinite loops of mischief, damned for all eternity to repeat the same kind of glitch (if I recall, it's a divinely-imposed punish- ment, exacted for the heinous crime of halitosis of the intellect). There are some fairly important guidelines to be followed in the case of ken arndts: 1. Do not try to enlighten them (it gives them migraines). 2. Do not make water on them (they love it!). 3. NEVER feed them lines after midnight, or at any other time! (Don't ask!) With a ken arndt, one of nature's (ahem!) "gifts", comes great respon- sibility (a Confucian euphemism for "effin' pain"), the kind best dele- gated to your local sanitation engineers. Season's Greetings, Ron Rizzo Idiot Falls, MA