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Thread #171977   Message #4166604
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
02-Mar-23 - 06:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Joke thread for 2023
Subject: RE: BS: Joke thread for 2023
When commercial sites started using BSD (fondly known by some of us as Berzerkeley Unix), some (*ahem*) managers pruned the "tunafish" joke out of tunefs(8)'s manpage. In SunOS 4.1.1, it had been reinstated, together with a comment in the source: "Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps till the time_t's wrap around." We take our jokes seriously.

.... My favourite bit in the BUGS section of a manpage (which I can no longer find) was: "This is a very small candle attempting to illuminate a large, dark problem." Fifty bonus points to whoever rediscovers it for us all.