Dr. Seuss was on the Juice

I helped Poe with a reading assignment tonight.  He's in 2nd grade now, and his homework frequently includes an assignment called "Read a book for 20 minutes" which usually involves reading a book for 20 minutes.  Tonight, the book of choice was Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks.  It's an endless series of tongue-twisters, but he got through it pretty well.  And it reminded me of an old favorite of mine...

Dr Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port
And the bus is interrupted at a very last resort
And the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash
And your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash
Then your situation's hopeless, and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse
But your packets want to tunnel unto another protocol
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang
'Cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk
And the macrocode instructions cause unnecessary risk
Then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!