Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lcuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!lcuxc!kenw From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Catchy Post-Divestiture Jingle Message-ID: <221@lcuxc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 14:06:20 EST Article-I.D.: lcuxc.221 Posted: Tue Feb 5 14:06:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 03:45:43 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 41 The divestiture of the old "Bell System" probably will go down in the history of both American business and law as prima facie evidence that leaders in both fields can have productive careers after prefrontal lobotomies. In honor of those great leaders who made Divestiture a reality for workers, for consumers, and for us all (God help us everyone), here is the conclusion of a catchy little number whose words were composed by some disgrunted wag somewhere in a Bell System (there, Judge Greene, I said it!) spinoff. The tune is the ever-popular "Twelve Days of Christmas." THE TWELFTH DAY OF DIVESTITURE On the twelfth day of Divestiture, Judge Greene gave to me. . . 12-digit dialing 11 ways of calling 10-hour days 9 levels MIPPing 8 separate stocks 7 holding comp'nies 6 lawsuits pending M C I ! 4 calling cards 3 PR-20's 2 sets of rules AND A REGULATED NON-MONOPOLY! -- Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, N.J. lcuxc!kenw (201) 740-4565 Kol machalokes shehi l'shaem shamayim, sofo l'hiskayaem; v'sheana l'shaem shamayim, ayn sofo l'hiskayaem.