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Favorite Techmas carols

• How Come There Is No Manual?
• Virtual Christmas
• 12 Days of (Microsoft) Christmas
• Bring a Disc
• The Bill Gates Song
• God Rest Ye Copland Programmers
• Not So Merry (Gentlemen)
• MIPS to the World
• Microsoft
• Jingle Bell (AOL)
• COBOL Coder
• Little Home Computer
• Perl White
• Blue Screen

Nights Before Christmas

• Computer Christmas
• Hacker's version
• Internet version
• Night Before Implementation
• Night Before Start-up
• Shift Before Christmas
• Silicon Impostor
• Worm Before Christmas

Man page for Christmas

Is Santa a sysadmin? You be the judge...

COBOL Coder
Tune: Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

You know fortran and dbase and java and pascal
perl, lisp and c++ and basic visual
But now you may choose...
The most useful language to use!

You'll be a cobol coder.
Greatest that the world has seen!
And when you've finished training,
Your pocket linings will be green.
All of those institutions,
Who used to burn your resume
Will crowd around you shouting
Save us all from Y2K!

When your call your ISP, email to download.
CEO's from everyplace will wave their offers in your face.

Then all your other colleagues
Knowing just pascal and c
Will see your better prospects
And writhe with bitter jealousy!

Lyrics © 1999 Michelle Bottorff