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The Battle Hymn of The Rebellion (unfinished)

 

Chas Andres

 

 

Go on, Traverse the PC lab,

look in Ms. Savatore's room

Rows and rows of Wintel machines

A gruesome reminder of doom.

 

Looking for something different, my friend?

I'm afraid you won't find it at Fenn.

For how many Macs remain at this school?

At last count, I think there were ten.

 

Now, just who is this guy we have?

He doesn't seem to think.

It seems that the smarts we're dealing with

Are the kind that are out for a drink.

 

He lives in a lair with a top-secret lock

The combination, to us, is unknown

If we go up to this door, just even to knock,

His paranoia is shockingly shown.

 

"Windows, NT, Its the wave of the future!"

Cries this man with the wormy mustache.

Living this way, he's a technical moocher

(His ideas need way too much cash)

 

But how many bucks can he spend on a Mac?

Maybe one, maybe two, maybe twenty?

Always poised and ready for attack,

He gives us his budget, IT'S EMPTY!

 

"Haha!" he says. It's phaseout time!

For three years, It's been hell.

Eliminate your platform? Why, its no crime,

I'll go o ut and get you a Dell.

 

Got a Mac at home? No prob at all.

We'll be glad to take care of that pest

Let's catapult it off the roof,

and then take care of the rest.

 

Late, on one November eve.

Snow still far from sight.

2 rugged individuals

speak out against their plight.

 

Excuse me, can you spare a sec?

Fight an unjust cause?

Please, help us on our endless trek.

Will anyone even pause?

 

O'er 200 people signed the doc,

finally, they had a good case

Now. they have to help spread the talk

And start the OS race.

 

The outcry grows to seventy percent

A third of the faculty, too

But old Mr. X. will never repent

To Windows, he still remains true.

 

"To Arms!" He cried "We shall not perish!

Rise up for your dominant kind!

This phaseout thing is too fun to relish

And soon, the world will be mine!"

 

"Gather your deadly viruses, my pets!

Scavenge for all of your bugs!

March in unison, one single way.

Or I'll pull out all of your plugs!

 

Heil admin! They cried as they marched by his stand

He saluted them all with great pride.

"Now, go forth and get those unfortunate rebels

and bring them here to my side."

 

As the 'lectronic army so mached 'roun d the school

Our heroes were in with the head

But before an armastice could be reached,

The PC's grabbed them, and fled.

 

Haha! He cried! I have you now!

My plan will always stay true!

I'll brainwash that man with my pitiful cause,

And then I will come back for you.

 

And for the first time ,our heroes could see

Here we were barking, all up the wrong tree.

Ol' Dr. X ain't the root of the cause

Why, he's just the front, the toes of the paws.

 

"Someon e must've hired him,"

He didn't come for free

But, who, who hates Macs that much

A lousy, bad trustee?

 

"Why, Yes!" X said with a laugh in his voice

And I'll bet it was more than a spontanious choice

And Just who it is I'm not liable to say,

So go on, have a happy holiday.

 

You're letting us go? We can leave as of now?

Yep! Said ol' X with a flick and a bow.

I've brainwashed the head, me cause is complete

You lost, and now I can never be beat!

 

But lo! Come christmas what should appear?

Not a mineature sleigh, no tiny reindeer,

A brand new OS, full of cool bells and whistles,

Enough to make X cough, and choke on his thistles.

 

Crapola! yelled our admin friend.

Rats and phooey and boo!

If this turns into a continuing trend

I'll have to move to Peru!

 

Poking 'round the lair one day,

A box stood on the table

With "Mac Open" written on its side,

To breathe, we were unable

 

Doomed! we cried! Doomed, I tells ya!

This stops or case in its tracks

But thanks to an informant named steve

We got it off our backs

 

"Not compatible! " He says

Jus' like I told ol' X

It came to me while eating a Pez

And I tol' everyone from here to New Mex

 

But on th e17th of the very first year

Another meeting occurred

And though our heroes shed many a tear

No Macs would be procured.

 

 

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