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Double Bucky
Double bucky, you're the one!
You make my keyboard lots of fun.
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifDouble bucky, an additional bit or two:
(Vo-vo-de-o!)
Control and meta, side by side,
Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifDouble bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
Oh,
I sure wish that I
Had a couple of
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifBits more!
Perhaps a
Set of pedals to
Make the number of
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifBits four:
Double double bucky!
Double bucky, left and right
OR'd together, outta sight!
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifDouble bucky, I'd like a whole word of
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifDouble bucky, I'm happy I heard of
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifDouble bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!
63aae95d7142d91b7e908a3e5868baf1.gifThe Great Quux (with apologies to Jeffrey Moss)
[This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filkESR] See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
double DECkers n. Used to describe married couples in which both partners work for Digital Equipment Corporation.
doubled sig [Usenet] n. A sig block that has been included twice in a Usenet article or, less commonly, in an electronic mail message. An article or message with a doubled sig can be caused by improperly configured software. More often, however, it reveals the author's lack of experience in electronic communication. See B1FF, pseudo.
down 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it), and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on. With respect to computers,

 
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