From dsblack@iastate.edu Mon Aug 23 19:05:19 1999 Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: 404 Reply-Path: dsblack@iastate.edu From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Dan Black) Keywords: smirk, internet, original Approved: funny-request@netfunny.com Path: myrddin.imat.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.netfunny.com!funny-request Followup-To: rec.humor.d Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:30:00 PDT Lines: 61 Xref: myrddin.imat.com rec.humor.funny:708 I thought I saw a poem once about the 404 error message, but I couldn't find it anywhere, in my files or on the web, including at the rhf web site. So I wrote my own; it is now the error message given for a 404 on the server in my office. So I guess this is all original. 404 It is said, "To err is human," That quote from alt.times.lore, Alas, you have made an error, So I say, "404." Double-check your URL, As we all have heard before. You ask for an invalid filename, And I respond, "404." Perhaps you made a typo -- Your fingers may be sore -- But until you type it right, You'll only get 404. Maybe you followed a bad link, Surfing a foreign shore; You'll just have to tell that author About this 404. I'm just a lowly server (Who likes to speak in metaphor), So for a request that I don't know, I must return 404. Be glad I'm not an old mainframe That might just dump its core, Because then you'd get a ten-meg file Instead of this 404. I really would like to help you, But I don't know what you're looking for, And since I don't know what you want, I give you 404. Remember Poe, insane with longing For his tragically lost Lenore. Instead, you quest for files. Quoth the Raven, "404!" by Dan Black dan@black.org 16 August 1999 -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@netfunny.com. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: Always give your jokes a descriptive "Subject:" line. Don't use "joke" or "submission" or "joke submission," please. For the full submission guidelines, see http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ This joke's link: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Aug/four.html