From: Dan Sugalski Date: 2002-09-03T05:01:49+09:00 Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby? At 4:14 AM +0900 9/3/02, Dossy wrote: >On 2002.09.03, Hal E. Fulton wrote: >> > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- >> > Dan Sugalski even samurai >> > dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even >> > teddy bears get drunk >> >> I've always wondered what this tag means and/or where it >> originates. Care to elaborate? On- or offline. > >It's a 5-7-5 haiku. I wonder if Dan originated it, but the >meme's kinda old now. At one point there was a Shockwave >Flash animation of a samurai teddy bear that watched over >someone sleeping and battled things while the sleeper >slept ... but no amount of googling would reveal a URL for >it and I can't find a factoid that points to it ... It's not mine, though I abused it into the haiku--I got it originally from a BSD fortune file, IIRC. The earliest Usenet reference I can find to it is January 15, 1985, but I'm pretty sure I had it before that. It's not, so far as I can tell, attributed to anyone, which is a shame, as I rather like the thing. :) -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk