i’ve got those segmentation violation, core dump blues… every time i find a copy of this, which i originally saw via /usr/games/fortune in about 1990, the link dies. so i’ll copy it here so i don’t lose it again. i’d credit it if i knew who put it together to start with.

Well, my terminal’s locked up, and I ain’t got any Mail,
And I can’t recall the last time that my program didn’t fail;
I’ve got stacks in my structs, I’ve got arrays in my queues,
I’ve got the : Segmentation violation — Core dumped blues.

If you think that it’s nice that you get what you C,
Then go : illogical statement with your whole family,
‘Cause the Supreme Court ain’t the only place with : Bus error views.
I’ve got the : Segmentation violation — Core dumped blues.

On a PDP-11, life should be a breeze,
But with VAXen in the house even magnetic tapes would freeze.
Now you might think that unlike VAXen I’d know who I abuse,
I’ve got the : Segmentation violation — Core dumped blues.

i couldn’t get fortune to give that to me. i was wondering if it had been updated since the days of the pdp-11. i found some hideously geeky jokes while looking:

Catching his children with their hands in the new, still wet, patio, the father spanked them. His wife asked, “Don’t you love your children?” “In the abstract, yes, but not in the concrete.”