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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Monty Python REST joke

From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:50:51 -0400

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SEMANTIC KNIGHT: None shall pass without formally defining the ontological meta-semantic thingies of their domain something-or-others! HACKER: What? SEMANTIC KNIGHT: None shall pass without using all sorts of semantic meta-meta-meta-stuff that we will invent Real Soon Now! HACKER: I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I must get my work done on the Web. Stand aside! SEMANTIC KNIGHT: None shall find anything on the Internet without semantic metadata! HACKER: So be it! HACKER and SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc. [HACKER chops the SEMANTIC KNIGHT's first argument off by building efficent statistical/heuristic search engines] HACKER: Now stand aside, worthy adversary. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch. HACKER: A scratch? Your argument has been cut off! SEMANTIC KNIGHT: No, it isn't. HACKER: Well, what's that, then? SEMANTIC KNIGHT: I've had worse. None shall have an effective syndication network without RDF Site Summaries! [clang] Hiyaah! [clang] Aaaaaaaah! [HACKER chops the SEMANTIC KNIGHT's second argument off by building the blogs/RSS/Aggregators/Bloglines/etc. network ] HACKER: Victory is mine! SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Have at you! [kick] HACKER: Eh. You are indeed brave, Sir Knight, but the fight is mine. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Oh, had enough, eh? HACKER: Look, you stupid &^%$# You've got no arguments left. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Yes, I have. HACKER: Look! SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Just a flesh wound. [kick] HACKER: Look, stop that. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: You won't be able to get machine-machine services without an ontology to formally describe all the relationships! [kick] HACKER: Right! [whop] [HACKER chops the SEMANTIC KNIGHT's third argument off by building SOAPy and RESTful services with only implicit semantic descriptions] SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Right. I'll do you for that! HACKER: You'll what? SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Come here! HACKER: What are you going to do, bleed on me? SEMANTIC KNIGHT: I'm invincible! HACKER: You're a looney. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: The SEMANTIC Knight always triumphs! Have at you! Come on, then. I have an battalion of KR theorists on my side [whop] [HACKER chops the SEMANTIC KNIGHT's last argument off with an army of actual code writers] SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Oh? All right, we'll call it a draw. HACKER: Come on, folks, let's go. SEMANTIC KNIGHT: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow ^&^%$s! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!

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