It's ok with me.  However, the references to Christmas may offend some
persons:
                those who view it as a religious holiday and don't believe
in Santa
                those who believe in other religions not included in the
poem
                those who really, really believe in Earthlink..


> Victor-
>
> Thank you for some much needed, and very creative, levity.  I move
> that this work be published, with permission, on the CIT web page,
> the next "theview", the Alumni magazine and anywhere else that we can
> hack into . . ahem, cough I mean . .. request publication.
>
>
> >It was the week before Christmas
> >And all through the college
> >The professors were busy
> >With increasing their knowledge
> >
> >The students were home
> >Downloading music for free
> >Technical Support was
> >Still programming in C
> >
> >The cables were laid
> >In the ceilings with care
> >In hope that more bandwidth
> >Soon would be there
> >
> >The firewall was busy
> >Preventing elf havoc
> >The Business school hoping
> >For DNS that's dynamic
> >
> >When up on the  T1 line
> >There arose so much chatter
> >Even Network Services
> >Wondered what was the matter.
> >
> >Was Earthlink creating
> >Their usual mess?
> >Or had one of the routers
> >Abruptly regressed?
> >
> >Their beepers were ringing
> >And panic ensuing
> >Some afraid to go outside
> >Could an ice storm be brewing?
> >
> >Then what on our
> >Wandering monitors should appear?
> >But a tiny red sled
> >And 8 tiny reindeer.
> >
> >And consuming our RAM was
> >A right Jolly old elf.
> >Who said "It's time to go home
> >And hang socks from your shelf".
> >
> >So he nipped off the power
> >Bringing work to a stop
> >And the next time we heard him
> >It was from the rooftop.
> >
> >"On Spooner, On Cavrak,
> >  On Austin, On Meeks
> >  On Rohr, On Gaffney,
> >  And the rest of you Geeks"
> >
> >"This staring at screens
> >  Day and night just won't do
> >  Sometimes you must
> >  Go outside and play too."
> >
> >Then we all heard him laughing
> >As he rode off in the night
> >Saying, "Merry Christmas to all
> >And to all a good night.."
>
>
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