UNIX offers several kinds hostilities: denial of service (type "~/bin" for an example) lack of compassion (type "?" into your favorite shell) Byzantine failure (type "ld ~/.cshrc" for example) corruption of language ("grep this file for...") .. but then, you knew this already. So in a more humorous vein, I present some tidbits from a local bboard. Excuse me if you've seen this before. Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be issued from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell. - ------------------------------------------------------ % "How poorly would you rate the UNIX (so-called) user interface? Unmatched ". % rm congressional-ethics rm: congressional-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Missing ]. % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. % sleep with me bad character % got a light? No match. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % %blow %blow: No such job. % \(- (-: Command not found. % sh $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink matter matter: cannot create