Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Humorous music (please read if you liked the last song) Message-ID: <339@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:38:18 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.339 Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:38:18 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 00:22:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 85 *** YOUR MESSAGE *** I am starting to receive requests for the file of LOTS songs. First of all, for the uninitiated, LOTS is Low Overhead (Largely Overloaded) Time Sharing at Stanford. I hesitate to provide information on obtaining the whole file for several reasons. First of all, it is BIG. There are some 75 - 80 songs, comprising a 101 block file on UN*X. More importantly however, LOTS does not have the manpower to deal with requests from all over the world for files. A copy was sent to me as a favor to an alum, former user and contributer. As a consolation, I will be posting songs at the rate of one every week to ten days, so that you all will have a new regular feature to look forward to. Below is the intro that appears in the file and another song. I hope you like them. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: E.Ernest at CERAS (Ernest W. Adams) Subject: Introduction These are the LOTS Songs. Their serious collection first began around December of 1979, although a couple, most notably "The Man Who Never Returned" and "I Don't Know LOTS" were around for quite a while before that. Both of those songs were written by Karl B. Young, who would come around LOTS of an evening, guitar in hand, and provide the users with a brief respite from their efforts. After a while, Karl began threatening to graduate, and it became apparent that if something were not done soon, these gems would disappear like the last of the Mohicans. I asked him to put the words on the system. At the same time, I broadcast a general plea for any and all other known LOTS Songs to be brought forward for immortalization. While no other old ones turned up, people began submitting new ones in droves. After a while, there were even enough to have a small "concert", and so the LOTS Concerts were born. Every quarter (that I can afford it), near the end, when the load gets up to 40 and the queue to 240, and the users begin to bring in sleeping bags and No-Doz, the hackers host a free (donations GLADLY accepted) drink and munchies songfest, first at CERAS, then at Terman. New and old songs are sung, and a good time is had by all. Bureaucratic note: All the LOTS Songs are the personal property of the authors and appear here with their consent. Brief quotes for review or illustrative purposes are permissible; however, any complete transcription must be arranged with the author in advance. In cases where the songs are quoted, common courtesy suggests that the quotations be properly credited. Enjoy! Ernest W. Adams Self-Appointed LOTS Archivist From: E.Ernest Subject: Early Morning Queue Early Morning Queue lyrics by Ernest Adams sung to the tune of "Early Morning Rain" by Gordon Lightfoot In the early morning queue With a listing in my hand With a worry in my heart Waitin' here in CERAS-land. I'm a long way from sleep How I miss a good meal so In the early mornin' queue With no place to go. There on terminal number 9 Pascal run all set to go But I'm waitin' in the queue With this code that ever grows. Now the lobby chairs are soft But that can't make the queue move fast Hey there it goes my friend I've moved up one at last. ------- -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph