UNIX entertainment for you dorks

… (and me dorks, I guess :} )

Note that the “%” prompt indicates that the command should be issued from the C shell, and the “$” prompt indicates the Bourne shell.

% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent

% ar m God
ar: God does not exist

% “How would you rate Bush’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many (‘s.

% make love
Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

% got a light?
No match.

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

% (-
(-: Command not found.

$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink < bottle; opener bottle: cannot open opener: not found $ mkdir matter; cat > matter
matter: cannot create

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