Re: [103attendees] With apologies to Murray Head

["Carlos M. Martinez" <[e-mail]>]

Brilliant :-D

Murray S. Kucherawy wrote on 2018-11-07 5:25 PM:
> (For Matt Miller)
>
> Bangkok, IETF setting
> And the city don't know that the city is getting
> The creme de la creme of the tech world
> In a show with everything but a true winner
>
> Time flies, it doesn't seem a minute
> Since the Tirolean spa had the tech folks in it
> All change don't you know that when you
> Nerd out at this level, there's no ordinary venue
>
> It's Singapore, or London, or Montreal,
> Or... or this place!
>
> One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
> The bars are temples but appeals ain't free
> You'll find a geek in every golden cloister
> And if you're lucky then the chair's a she
> I can feel the NomCom sliding up to me
>
> One town's very like another
> When your head's down over the IAOC, brother
> It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
> To be looking at the slides, not looking at the city
>
> Whaddya mean?
> Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking working group
> Tea, nerds, the RSE
> Some are set up in the secret Scotch BoF suite
>
> Get thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
> Whose every blue sheet is among the purest
> I get my drafts above the waistline, sunshine
>
> One night in Bangkok makes a hard nerd humble
> Not much between despair and the IESG
> One night in Bangkok and the editors tumble
> Can't be too careful with your company
> I can feel the NomCom walking next to me
>
> DISPATCH is gonna be the witness
> To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
> This grips me more than would a
> Muddy old river or a frustrating AD
> And thank God I'm only watching the game, despising it
> I don't see you guys rating
> The kind of DISCUSS I'm contemplating
> I'd let you watch, I would invite you
> But the logic we use would not excite you
>
> So you better go back to your BoFs, your mailing lists,
> Your interim meetings...
>
> One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
> The bars are temples but MIME types ain't free
> You'll find a geek in every golden cloister
> A little Postel and his history
> I can feel the NomCom sliding up to me
>
> One night in Bangkok makes a hard nerd humble
> Not much between despair and plenary
> One night in Bangkok and the editors tumble
> Can't be too careful with your company
> I can feel the NomCom walking next to me
>
> (To the tune of "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head, 1984)