[humorix] Running Linux Backwards Reveals The Shocking Truth

[James Baughn <jbaughn@ldd.net>]

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Running Linux Backwards Reveals The Shocking Truth
Glenn Alexander, glenalec@ozemail.com.au
June 21, 2001

The Church of Self-Righteous Commandment Breaking has
shocked the world by demonstrating the effects of running
the compiled code of the Linux kernel backwards
byte-for-byte.

"We test everything we can get our sweaty little hands on
backwards," Father Nick Offenbach, Arch Patriach of the
Church told us. "You never know when you will get a free
publicity stunt out of something that sounds vaguely
Satanic to a pre-jured audience -- you know half the words
in any language sound satanic backwards at _some_ speed,
but I digress."

"We got one of our young ones to load Linux onto a machine
that had an Intel P4 chip with a flaky program counter that
runs backwards. When we booted the machine up during mass, 
the congregation demolished half of the benches trying to
scramble out of the church and away from what they were
seeing and hearing. It was truely shocking. If you thought
Barney the Dinosaur with its batteries inverted chanting
'Bill is Lord! Sacrifice yourself to him now -- use Office'
was bad, just wait until you experience this!"

The Priest then took us into a deep vault below the church
graveyard where the offending PC was being kept in chains
and surrounded by a ring of flowing holy water brought in
from the evian spring. Using a long stick which he burned
immediately after, he proceeded to press the power button.
We were shocked! We were apalled! We were disgusted! To the
sound of the Microsoft Jingle we saw the 16-colour
Microsoft splash screen and the words 'Windows is
starting...'

So there you have it. Microsoft Windows really _is_ the
anti-Linux.


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