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SqlOnMyMind SSCertifiable Points: 5062 More actions · Answer 1

Abbs (10/31/2008)
Once upon a nightmare query, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious part of code,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a hacking,
Someone gently hacking, hacking at my network node.
"'Tis some colleague", I muttered, "knocking at my network node -
Only this," I did decode.
....

Well done! May I circulate this?

Abbs Default port Points: 1454 More actions · Answer 2

Carla Wilson (10/31/2008)
Abbs (10/31/2008)
Once upon a nightmare query, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious part of code,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a hacking,
Someone gently hacking, hacking at my network node.
"'Tis some colleague", I muttered, "knocking at my network node -
Only this," I did decode.
....
Well done! May I circulate this?

Hi Carla - Thanks. Fee free to circulate - it's a plagiarised/SQL-fied version of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, so I call this one "The Hacker". Maybe I'll do a few more stanzas for next Hallowe'en.

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SqlOnMyMind SSCertifiable Points: 5062 More actions · Answer 3

Yes, I recognized the play on Poe, which is what I really enjoyed about it - and I find it much scarier than a raven! 🙂

SanjayAttray SSChampion Points: 13157 More actions · Answer 4

simple and good question but 13 points, I think is too much to give.

May be author thought of 13 figure because it stands for scary !!!

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knechod SSC-Addicted Points: 482 More actions · Answer 5

I am surprised! Not that I got the question wrong, but that you knew that Stockings was my cat! :w00t:

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webrunner SSC-Dedicated Points: 31853 More actions · Answer 6

Don Preston (10/31/2008)
I've spent my entire life in Detroit and from the time I was a kid in the 1960s, the night before Halloween was called Devil's Night. On Devil's Night, every miscreant kid roamed the streets and apparently tried to burn the city down. I didn't learn until much later that the tradition was unique to Detroit. My parents wouldn't even consider letting me out to roam with my friends on Devil's Night so I can't attest to specifics but arsons were typically over 1000 that night. It's difficult to say what percentage were insurance scams also.
As I said earlier though, about 10 years ago, the mayor at that time, Dennis Archer, organized community groups to put a stop to it and much of this generation of Detroit children have never heard of it....thankfully.

Wow, that does sound hellish. Good riddance!

Thanks for the info,

webrunner

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Ed Heistand Ten Centuries Points: 1233 More actions · Answer 7

And as everybody knows, the best tricks involve pyrotechnics! I say points for everybody except those stocking-stuffers!

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736105 More actions · Answer 8

The humor questions always have a disproportionate number of points. They're fun, and hopefully everyone gets them right so it doesn't matter.

13 being a bad luck, spooky kind of number seemed appropriate for Halloween.

Ian Kelly SSC Rookie Points: 32 More actions · Answer 9

For some people, Halloween is the start of the New Year, and all kinds of celebration are appropriate - including fireworks. So "fireworks" is not a wrong answer. Sigh.