Abort, Retry, Ignore?

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Fri, 17 Aug 2007, 16:13
spinal	My time to spam.... Anyone with a creepy voice wonna recite this and spread the mp3 around tow globe? Abort, Retry, Ignore? (To the meter of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven") Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets. Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer, I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store, Only this and nothing more. Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing, Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more. But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token. "Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!" One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more, Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion? These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before. Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises. The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more. Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more, With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending, Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored, Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key. But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before. Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore, Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard. I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore. Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations, Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before. Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before. Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted. Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor. And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night. A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core. The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore. Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go. What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored, Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes? But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more, You will be one day left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore, Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?". --v -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Fri, 17 Aug 2007, 17:13
power mousey	Excellent!! I read it aloud in a dreary,low, and slow English accent. The Tell Tale Heart power mousey
Sat, 18 Aug 2007, 01:17
Evil Roy Ferguso	I read through the first "Abort, Retry, Ignore." I don't think I sound sufficiently creepy for this, but it was fun to do, anyway.
Sat, 18 Aug 2007, 04:29
spinal	Very good Evil Roy. My girlfriend said she'd do a flash animation for it if you do the whole thing! Wodduya say? The best version of the raven I can think of is the simpsons version. https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJ1tf6GO4-c -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Sat, 18 Aug 2007, 19:10
Evil Roy Ferguso	Sure -- if nobody creepier comes out of the woodwork in the next few days (I'm sure there must be someone...), I'll try to read it again (hopefully with some actual effort to follow the meter). Alas, I'm afraid my voice just isn't deep enough to be as awesome as the Simpson's version.
Sat, 18 Aug 2007, 21:44
power mousey	want me to read it in a voice like Marge Simpson. or perhaps a threesome of Marge, Thelma and Selma. Now, thats creepy! By the way, I really like Marge Simpson. She is my favorite character in the Simpsons. cheers, power mousey