On 12/13/21 11:39, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:

On 2021-12-09 08:27, arthurdavidolson at gmail.com (Arthur David Olson) wrote:

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Discussion at an online meeting today made me realize that, alas, we missed the recent 35th anniversary of the start of the time zone mailing list.

Put 2026-11-25 on your calendars now.-)

     https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1986-November/008946.html

Noticing the date 1986-11-25, it might be a good time to lighten the mood, in the spirit of the season and the group, by suggesting and requesting late anniversary submissions by filkers and literary posters based on:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas

I live in Troy, New York which has close links to this poem. Authorship is apparently in question... https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/night-before-christmas-tria...

and pastiches and parodies like:

    http://www.appleseeds.org/twas-night_vers.htm

perhaps titled "A Visit from St. Arthur", starting:

    "Twas a month before Xmas, ..."

hopefully including mentions of other early participants, possibly as reindeer ;^>

At the latter link, for inspiration perhaps look at:

    "Tis the Month Before Christmas"

    "The Net Before Christmas"

    "Twas the Night Before Y2K"

or:

    http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00227.html     "Twas the Night Before Implementation"

    http://c4vct.com/kym/humor/cybrnite.htm     "Twas The Cyber Night Before Christmas"

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/twas-the-night-befor...

    http://suburbanbanshee.net/filk/compulnk.html

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968     "Twas the night before start-up"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments

The inside-baseball coda: And I heard them exclaim As they rose out of sight Merry Christmas to all Be it POSIX or right. @dashdashado On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:14 PM Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:

On 12/13/21 08:39, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:

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suggesting and requesting late anniversary submissions by filkers and literary posters

Bonus points for "filkers". I'd never heard of filk songs until today.

As a *terrible* poet (as Moore was) I suppose I'm qualified. Here's a first verse; further contributions welcome.

Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the lab Not an RA was shirking, nor having a gab. Though stuffing was stored by the turkeys somewhere, In hopes that Thanksgiving would be fun to share, The PIs were typing away at their desks, While visions of funding bucks danced like burlesques, And Bob at his Anvil and I at my Sun, Had just settled things for a long production run, When out on the net there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.