Appropriations

Sometimes, words are so right, so apt, so perfect. Such words should be called 'appropriations'; often, they are both appropriate as well as somebody else's – i.e., 'appropriated'.

It was what came to mind when I realised that this code fragment was it. It is very appropriate for my day. It is certainly more appropriate than the Harlan Ellison version. Which is not to say that Ellison's version is totally inappropriate, though.

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ON CATURDAY

    IM IN YR BED

        I IZ SLEEPIN!!10
        VISIBLE "Z!"

    KTHX

KTHXBYE

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If you don't already know, this is a famous instance of LOLCODE. I have yet to figure out if 'All Your Base Is Belong To Us' is actually grammatical.

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In other breaking news, Archilochos of Paros has just become my latest poet of choice (read the examples given and you will see why). Some of you will probably have already identified T S Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and G K Chesterton as belonging to this small group. I wonder if you can guess who the others are.