I particularly liked the way jive would transform
Ronald Reagan to
Rolo Kingfish and
nigger to gentleman. Around the same time, I was also playing with the
spew program, which randomly generated sensational,
tabloidesque headlines like "
Liz Taylor Gives Birth to
Bigfoot on
Mars".
The best thing about spew is that it could be
piped directly into jive, effectively eliminating the need to type anything.
A lazy co-worker used an
alias to shorten spew|jive into
spive, and a not-so-lazy co-worker created a
TCP daemon which would run spive for people who
telnetted to a designated
port on the box. These were the days before the
World Wide Web, mind you, so watching people from all over the world punch into your machine for a dose of spive was still pretty cool.