(filk to: Let The Punishment Fit The Crime from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado)
The sales engineer
Who for quotas and bonuses
Signs on unapproved deals
Is forced to schmooze
In bars without booze
After very hot Indian meals
The technical writer
Whose small inconsistencies
Make ambiguous prose
Gets a 286
With a keyboard that sticks
And Word Perfect in text-only modes
chorus
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time
To let the punishment fit the crime
The punishment fit the crime
And make each pris'ner pent
Unwittingly represent
A source of innocent merriment
Of innocent merriment
The channel lizard
With image inflation
Who floods and spams and whines
Is lagged for an hour
With net splits that sour
All of his very best lines
Copyright 2001 Robin Hilp