FW: a neat song I ran across

This showed up in my mailbox one fine day, and I figured the rest of you might just appreciate it :)

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>From: Tom Martin (Volt)
>Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 1996 3:25 PM
>To: MS Humor
>Subject: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Teenage Cyberpunk
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><Forwards out singing and dancing>
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>*File Description: I am the Very Model of a Modern Teenage Cyberpunk*
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>I am the very model of a modern teenage Cyberpunk
>I rent my own apartment and it's full of electronic junk
>I own a VAX, a 486, I've even got a PDP
>I've finished Myst and Doom but I am stumped by Wing Commander III
>
>
>I'm very well aquainted too with matters pornographical
>I have a list of image sites, both overseas and national
>So if you want to see a picture of that Anna Nichole Smith
>I'll fire up my terminal and fetch for you a naughty GIF
>
>I'm totally an anarchist, the government I'd like to wreck,
>Though if they were to get blown up, who'd give to me my welfare
>cheque?
>In short if you need answers that concern your electronic junk,
>I am the very model of a modern teenage Cyberpunk
>
>I know the ancient myths about RTM, Pengo and Mitnick
>I 'hack' into computers and I then perform a credit check
>I scare all my non-hacker friends with tales of cracker theivery
>and even though I'm spouting crap they'll listen and believe in me
>
>I've learned to spot a troll and I've seen flames about the way I
>spell,
>I've traced badly forged cancels and seen napalm poured on AOL
>I've laughed at all the newbies and their flailing cries of "You all
>Suck!"
>I've been flamed by Carasso, with an anvil I have then been struck
>
>I've hung around in alt.tasteless and seen war waged on rec.pets.cats
>I've spent my time in talk.bizarre and used those stupid Relay Chats
>In short, if you need answers that concern your electronic junk,
>I am the very model of a modern teenage Cyberpunk
>
>Well postings like "MAKE.MONEY.FAST", I am now somewhat wary at,
>I have been "Global Killfiled" by the Joel Furr Commissariat,
>When rosebud posts a lengthy rant 'bout Microsoft she swears is true,
>I know that she is just another short lived kook without a clue
>
>When I have learnt what progress has been made upon the Internet,
>When I know something more than just a smattering of netiquette,
>In short when I can have a world-wide soapbox on which I can stand
>I've got no time for other things, like beer and trips to Disneyland
>
>My life outside the Internet is very very sad you see
>I cannot get my spots to fade, my social life's a tragedy,
>But still if you need answers that concern your electronic junk,
>I am the very model of a modern teenage Cyberpunk.
>
>(With apologies to G&S)
>
Received on 04/11/96