- CYBERWOCKY*
- An
Ode to Procter & Gamble
-
©
Copyright 1998 Ellen Rony
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- 'Twas
global and the Internauts
- Did
Procter & Gamble on the
'Net.
- A
full court spam, all .COM were
bought,
- SLIPs,
OOPs, and FTPs were set.
-
- Beware
the TRO, my son,
- infringement
and diluting name.
- The
Bigfoot Letter will come
- to
snickersnatch your HTML fame.
-
- With
ISPs, they came on-line.
- A
hundred URLs they sought.
- But
InterNIC said with sober head,
- "If
there's no PING, you will be
caught."
-
- UNDERARMS,
BADBREATH, too,
- The
maladies went on and on;
- FLU
and GERMS, PIMPLES, COUGH,
- Plus
DEODERANT, spelled wrong
-
- More
uuffish names, PRINGLES,
PUFFS,
- GUM-CARE,
SCALP, SPICNSPAN,
- VAPORUB,
METAMUCIL.COM,
- an
octet for HUGOWORDSLAM
-
- No
ACK or NAK, or snickersnack;
- NOXEMA
twice along the way.
- ALEVE,
ULAY, OILOFOLAY!
- They've
gone cyberserk, we say.
-
- 'Twas
global and the internauts
- Did
Procter & Gamble on the Net
- RWHOIS
checked, no COM forgot,
- SLDs
for the whole alphabet.
-
- *With
apologies to Lewis G. Carroll, author of
the
- famed
"Jabberwocky" from Through the Looking
Glass
-
- This
poem will be included in a keepsake
chatbook published by the Lewis Carroll
Society of Canada in Fall 2001 for its
members.
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Other articles,
editorials and domain-related comments by this
author:
  The
Envelope, Please: New Top Level Domains on the
Horizon
Procter
& Gamble Bids Adieu to SINUS, THIRST and
FLU
Sunrise+20:
The Numbers Tell the Story
Famous
Marks
Clicks
or Mortar: Are Domain Names Property?
Res
Ipsa Loquitur
RDND:
Reverse Domain Name Denigratio
IIR:
Internet Impact Report
The
Devil is in the Details
An
Alternative to ICANN?
Comments
on the WIPO Interim Report RFC-3
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