[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Bevan Slattery]

Let's reset all the clocks and today 2016 shall now become the start of the year 1 AC (After Census).  Brilliant Karl.  Brilliant.  Could also be 20 BEV (Before Electronic Voting).  Either way - GOLD!

[b]

> On 9 Aug 2016, at 11:47 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 13:36 +0000, Tom Berryman wrote:
>> “What were you browsing during the 2016 Census?”
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> Many moons ago, oh dearly beloved, a young man called David was tasked
> with running a Census. He bent himself earnestly to the task, but Young
> David listened not to the wisdom of sages. Young David minded not the
> will of the people. In Young David's hands the Census became... a
> Clusterfuck.
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> Scorn and derision rose like toxic fumes from every hut and hovel
> across the land. 
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> The young man fled, his face burning. He stumbled out of the smoking
> ruins of his career and travelled far away, over the great waters,
> away, away. He lived a life monastic and humble. The days and weeks and
> months and years flowed like water over and around him.
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> After many years, though, his homeland called to him, and he once more
> turned towards it. He was a young man no more; he was an old man. Old
> and much changed, and knew he would not be recognised. He hoped that
> the passage of time might have allowed his terrible failure to have
> faded in the memory of his countrymen.
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> Upon his return he gazed in wonder about him, for as he had changed so
> too had his homeland. Where once trees and grassy areas had been, there
> were towers and malls. He cried out in wonder.
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> "What is it, old man?" asked a passing child. "Are you in pain? Can I
> help you?"
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> "No, no", said the old man. "it is just that this place I once knew is
> now foreign to my eyes. How long, pray tell, has this great tower
> stood, where once a graceful parkland stretched?"
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> "I know not", said the child. "But it has stood these many years. It
> was built, so we are taught, not more than a year or two after Young
> David fucked up the Census...."
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> Regards, K.
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> PS: Adapted from a much older joke, not mine.
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