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38 lines
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Twas the week before finals
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Stumbled on this oldie from the early 1970s. Written by Mike Carroll ("Hob"), Mike Folk ("Starry"), and Tom Stieglitz ("Condor"):
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Twas the week before finals,
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And on every term
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The gamers were playing, making everyone squirm
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The Cyber was clicking, the disks were a-spin
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And the people in moonwar were trying to win
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S-3's on remotes were blinking and flashing
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(Every 5 minutes the system was crashing)
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A new version here, and a new version there
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Was enough to make even John Eisenberg swear
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The Baron was BLEEPING at the raunched Comptech2
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And Fuller was missing his space: fr2
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Pad was in shambles, thanks to aero of glass
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And everyone's heading for talko, en masse.
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Poor John Daleske (as empire dies)
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Is tearing his hair: tears in his eyes.
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Meanwhile Pete Rowell and his friend Al McNeil
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Are busily trying to make Nova look real
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With cookies we authors, try Frankel to please
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And Rick Blomme's beard is down to his knees.
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He's being attacked, he's getting quite mad
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But he's still the best friend the games ever had.
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Then what to my wondering eyes should appear
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But a sorrowful Sweater and a can of ROOT BEER.
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"I'm hooked on my Fanta, I've given up hope...
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The withdrawal is bad, like being on dope."
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The author of pad, gandy, et al.
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Will hopefully be back on the system next fall
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(PLUG PLUG PLUG PLUG)
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For those that we've missed (we know quite a few)
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Check back in a month, when we write version 2.
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Hob, Condor, Starry: We all need a rest.
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We know this is poor, but we did do our best.
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