[AusNOG] census issues tonight

[Scott Weeks]

--- zedestructor at gmail.com wrote:

What else is one supposed to do while trying repeatedly 
to submit the thing?
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Beer. :-)


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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] 
On Behalf Of Karl Auer

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
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Not being from there, I had to go and read who David and 
the sages were.  Wow, I just can't believe the insanity
of this.  Your politicians are as crazy as ours are.  (I 
know... I said that before)  

"travelled far away, over the great waters"  Don't send 
him over here!!!  We have enough already and even crazier 
ones stumping to join the crazy pool...umm...I mean the 
"political elite".  Send him to Patagonia so he can live 
high in the mountains where he can contemplate his 
megalomaniac ideals.  ;-)

"He lived a life monastic and humble"  These folks are 
never humble.  No matter what they cling to megalomania
like a crab clings to the cliffs at the beach.

Nonetheless, that's one of the best things I have read 
in a while and everyone gets to see if your prediction 
comes true because it will be very visible.

scott







> Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 12:47 AM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] census issues tonight
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> On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 13:36 +0000, Tom Berryman wrote:
>> “What were you browsing during the 2016 Census?”
> 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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