Funny UNIX shell commands

SUBJ: Stupid Shell Tricks

[Editor's Note: First of all, if you're not familiar with UNIX, your
best bet is to skip this piece; if you are a UNIX geek, you will
probably spend the next 30 minutes trying each one. Second, I've
tried most of these myself, and each one worked as advertised. ]

Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be issued
from the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell.

% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent

% ar m God
ar: God does not exist

% "How would you rate Clinton's incompetence? 
Unmatched ".

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

% got a light?
No match.

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

% \(-
(-: Command not found.

% sh

$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink < bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found

$ mkdir matter; cat > matter
matter: cannot create