do you know where this comes from?

[FoBoT]

T: T: My name is Tara: and my husband's name is Thomas:
We come from Tarrytown: a
nd we sell Tomatoes::
295-624-961-289-099-959-520
$ 0 2746 3000 8 1 0 0

more clues later

 

[blackdogdeek]

is the question 'where is tarrytown'?

otherwise, it looks like spam.

 

[FoBoT]

no, the whole thing. the whole "poem" if you will, where did i get it?

it is NOT spam

 

[Amdiggidy]

Isn't it one of those rhymesthat little girls say as they clap/ slap each others hands in time to the rhyme (on the playground at recess or whatever)?

 

[Bootprint]

Jump rope game.

 

[TheChort]

$ 0 2746 3000 8 1 0 0

Something about this seems oddly familiar, but I cant put my finger on it

 

[FoBoT]

the poem itself does come from a jump rope game

non-geeks /thread

geeks - open a DOS window (on console in linux) and telnet to time.nist.gov port 79

for windows, use this: telnet -a time.nist.gov

then hit a key and see what it says

here are some more:

M: M: My name is Mary: and my husband's name is Max:
We come from Miami: and we s
ell Mustard::
096-175-911-289-206-969-102
$ 0 693 3000 8 1 0 0

F: F: My name is Frances: and my husband's name is Frank:
We come from Frankfurt:
and we sell Furniture::
870-662-761-289-208-907-882
$ 0 720 3000 8 1 0 0

 

[captains]

top 10 for dumbest post

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: captains
top 10 for dumbest post

i would have posted it in GeeksOffTopic, but there is only this general Off Topic forum available

here is why you get this from govt. time servers:

Here's the explanation, from Judah Levine of the Time and Frequency Divison,
NIST Boulder:

> 1. The first text is a pseudo-random text designed to confuse automated
search engines (note the strategic colons). There are 16 poems and they are
sent in a random sequence. The text is derived from a jump-rope game and has
no special meaning.

> 2. The remaining digits provide internal information on the operation of the
server and are used for automated remote monitoring. All NIST servers do
this.

> 3. Most of the digits relate to complicated internal parameters. However,
the first 3 values after the $ sign are easy to explain the first is the
overall state of the server (0=ok,>0=various failures) the second is the time
since the server was last calibrated (in sec), and the third is the nominal
interval between calibrations (in sec) the remaining parameters have to do
with the internal clock control of the system.

 

[notfred]

Repost about government timeservers from yesterday.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: captains
top 10 for dumbest post

Whoa, not a chance. It wouldn't crack the top 10K.

 

[WangoZ]

Tarrytown is in the Westchester County area of New York?