Originally published at: See how stories look when you get rid of all the words but leave the punctuation | Boing Boing
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Geek Poetry [snagged from somewhere a long time ago…]
< > ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * < > ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
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The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma
CRASH.
SOURCE: INFOCUS magazine. Original authors, Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese of Calvin College & Seminary of Grand Rapids, MI.
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Looks like most matzah. Is God sending us messages by way of Manischewitz?
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So, Hemingway’s stories would all look identical:
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That also looks like Celine’s stories…
OMG, apparently there was a film about him a few years ago!
I’m gonna have to put this on my DVD queue to torture my family with…
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If Victor Borge read these renderings aloud it would sound like dubstep.
Next update to the app should include a Victor Borge text-to-speech synthesizer.
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It started as exactly that — an eye roll joke. But it turned into something else!
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Blessed be Her holy hooves 
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New gift idea: get a friend’s favorite book rendered like this then printed on a t-shirt. I think I might do this…
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Looks like the versions for yeast.
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