bad file naming

Stolen shamelessly from alt.humor.best-of-usenet, which was stolen
shamelessly from rec.humor.oracle.d:

> Subject: Re: The question was too hard... 
> From: "Roger Strong" <efgebat@lrgznaf.zo.pn>
> Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
> 
> One of my co-workers was on the phone, walking a customer through removing
> the software for a Star multiport from an NCR Tower.  The command was 
> "rm -r star".  It took a full fifteen minutes for him to figure out why it
> was taking so long.....




-b

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