Fun with Unix

If you type these in from the csh (c shell): in Unix you really do get these responses.

  • % make love
    Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.
  • % got a light?
    No match.
  • % sleep with me
    bad character
  • % man: Why did you get a divorce?
    man:: Too many arguments.
  • % make ‘heads or tails of all this’
    Make: Don’t know how to make heads or tails of all this. Stop.
  • % make sense
    Make: Don’t know how to make sense. Stop.
  • % make mistake
    Make: Don’t know how to make mistake. Stop.
  • % make bottle.open
    Make: Don’t know how to make bottle.open. Stop.
  • % (-
    (-: Command not found.
  • % make light
    Make: Don’t know how to make light. Stop.
  • % date me
    You are not superuser: date not set Thu Aug 25 15:52:30 PDT 2012
  • % man rear
    No manual entry for rear.
  • % If I had a ) for every dollar Obama spent, what would I have?
    Too many )’s.
  • % * How would you describe Obama
    *: Ambiguous.
  • % %Vice-President
    %Vice-President: No such job.
  • % ls Obama-Ethics
    Obama-Ethics not found
  • % “How would you rate Clinton’s senility?
    Unmatched “.
  • % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
    Missing ]. |
  • % ^How did the^sex change operation go?
    Modifier failed.
  • % who is my match?
    No match.
  • % set i=”Democratic_Platform”;mkdir $i;chmod 000 $i;ls $i
    Democratic_Platform unreadable
  • % awk “Polly, the ship is sinking”
    awk: syntax error near line 1
    awk: bailing out near line 1
  • % ‘thou shalt not commit adultery’
    thou shalt not commit adultery: Command not found.