🚀 go-pugleaf

johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:

>Why don't you make one up and post it for the edification of all.


GEOS: The Play

Starring:	Brian Dougherty
		The Geoworks Singing Engineers
		The Pleasant Female Voice Recording

Also Featuring:	Several 12-year-old schoolchildren
		Two former Berlin Wall security guards
		Someone who looks a lot like one Mr. Gates
		One C++ programmer.

Music	By:	Pink Floyd
		Messiah
		John Williams

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Scene 1:  Somewhere in Northwest Washington

[The interior of a comfortable country home the size of the average former
Soviet Republic.  On a desk across the room, a powerful-looking computer is 
running a game of Tetris.  The player sits obscured by a high-backed chair, 
facing away from the camera.]

Computer (synthesized voice):
	My sincerest apologies, but insufficient resources are available for
	Windows NT to continue this application.  Please increase your storage
	space.  Goodbye.

[A small box appears on the screen, containing the words "This is not an
Unrecoverable Application Error, this is an undocumented feature."]

Player: (as yet unseen)
	Oh drat, I guess I'll need another drive.  At least I've got SCSI.

[Player presses a button on an intercom phone, and says something, not loud
enough to be heard.]

Player: (still mercifully unseen)
	Computer, shutdown.

[Computer shuts itself down promptly.  Moments later, a technician arrives,
and quickly installs a large-capacity hard drive in the computer's case.]

Technician:
	There you go, sir.  Another 2 gigs, bringing you to a total of 14.

[Technician exits, stage left.]

Player:
	Computer, reboot.

[Computer turns itself back on, beeps, and reboots.  Unfortunately, the desk
gives way beneath the added weight.]

FX: (sound of overweighted tower case crashing through several floors en
    route to basement)

Player:
	If only the hard drives were lighter, it would work perfectly.

[Hanz and Franz look-alikes stride into room, dragging a young man wearing
a "C++ Programmers Do It With Objects" T-shirt, who is carrying a small 
object, apparently some sort of electronic device.]

Guard 1:
	Sir!  Ve found der programmer playing mit der electronicht toy!

Programmer:
	But sir, I had just finished writing the Apple II emulator for NT,
	and it even runs as fast as a _real_ one!

Guard 2:
	Und der toy, ist ben using der Vindows?  Nein, mein Gott!

[Player whirls around in chair, revealing a familiar face, the head of a
large and notorious software corporation.  He is wearing a "CEO's do it
for money" T-shirt.]

CEO:
	Let's see it.

[Guard hands device to CEO]

CEO:
	A Zoomer, eh?  What sort of toy is this?

[CEO presses on the screen of the Zoomer, which promptly starts playing Tetris
at breakneck speed, without falling through his desk.]

FX: (ominous music.)

Curtain.

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To be continued....?

-Shag

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