ttto The Wassail Song (trad.)
25DEC = 31OCT
(Originally posted on the lois-bujold list, 2004-03-18, with this preface:)
--- Lathia wrote:
> Do you know why programmers think that halloween and christmas are the same holiday?
> Cause DEC 25= OCT 31
I'm trying to remember the Nerd Carol, by christy tillman.
It was in Xenofilkia issue #55 (Oct. 1997), p. 1104, but my Xenos are still packed away.
Anyhow, it's ttto The Wassail Song ("Here we come a-caroling") and goes something like this:
The nerds they go a-caroling
Each year on Hallowe'en
For they have read the calendar
And this is what they've seen:
Thirty-one base eight
Equals twenty-five base ten
And so they will tell you again and again
And again and again and again.
The nerds go trick-or-treating
Every year on Christmas Eve
For they do math in octal
And therefore they believe
Twenty-five base ten
equals thirty-one base eight
Trick-or-treating on Christmas can never be too late,
Trick-or-treating can never be too late.
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