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Oh yes, I love that one -- it inspired me to become a Window System Hacker, and write the ugly and nasty and horrible and kludgy "Bouncy pushy window mixin", which made the windows bounce all around the screen!

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/bounce-and-push.lis...

ALICE'S LISP MACHINE: Chris Stacy, Alan Wecsler, and Noel Chiappa

https://web.archive.org/web/20110403000600/http://allegedly....

              There was all kinds of  mean, nasty, ugly-lookin' people  on
    the bench there ...  there was Microcoders,  DPL hackers, File  System
    hackers, and  Window System  Hackers!!  Window System  hacker  sittin'
    right there  on  the bench  next  to  me! And  the  meanest,  ugliest,
    nastiest one... the kludgiest Window System hacker of them all...  was
    comin' over to me, and he was mean and ugly and nasty and horrible and
    all kinds of things, and  he sat down next to  me. He said, "Kid,  you
    get a new copy of the sources?"  I said, "I didn't get nothin'. I  had
    to rebuild the world load."

              He said,  "What were  you arrested  for, kid?"  and I  said,
    "Littering..." And they  all moved away  from me on  the bench  there,
    with the hairy  eyeball and all  kinds of mean,  nasty things, 'til  I
    said, "And making  gratuitous modifications to  LMIO; sources..."  And
    they all came  back, shook my  hand, and we  had a great  time on  the
    bench talkin' about microcoding, DPL designing, file-system hacking,
    ... and all kinds of groovy things that we was talkin' about on the
    bench, and everything was fine.

              We was drinking Coke smoking all kinds of things, until  the
    RA came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said:

         "KIDS-THIS-EXAM-S-GOT-FOURTY
         SEVEN-WORDS-THIRTY-SEVEN-MULTIPLE-CHOICE-QUESTIONS
         FIFTY-EIGHT-WORDS-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-DETAILS
         OF-THE-HACK-THE-TIME-OF-THE-HACK-AND-ANY
         OTHER-KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY
         PERTAINING-TO-AND-ABOUT-THE-HACK-ANY-OTHER
         KIND-OF-THING-YOU-GOT-TO-SAY-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW
         THE-ARRESTED-PROCESS'-NAME-AND-ANY
         OTHER-KIND-OF-THING..."

    And he talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that
    he said. But we had  fun rolling the mice  around and clickin' on  the
    buttons.