- TG:
- Here we have the Fishbowl. This is the most famous
Athena cluster on campus.
- T1:
- Why is it named the Fishbowl?
- TG:
- The large glass wall makes it possible for people outside the cluster
to look in, and observe the MIT student in its natural habitat.
- T2:
- How interesting is it to watch students sitting and doing work?
- TG:
- Oh, they're not doing work. Most of them are zephyring each other.
- T1:
- Zephyring?
- TG:
- [speaking as if the host of a national geographic TV special]
It's a form of communication that allows people sitting two feet from
each other to type messages to each other. See those two over there? I've
been observing them for a while. Maybe we can catch a glimpse of their
complex mating ritual.
[Music begins, spotlight on Girl and Boy, as they stand]
- B:
- Zephyr loving, had me some fun
- G:
- Zephyr loving, using a Sun
- B:
- In the Fishbowl is where we begin
- G:
- Fateful cluster where we logged in
- BG:
- Zephyrgrams, how excited I am 'bout the oh oh Athena Z-write
[People sitting in the cluster stand up and sing this, Girls (GG) and Boys(BB)]
- GGBB:
- Tell me more tell me more please type your message now.
- GGBB:
- Control-D or a dot on a line by itself.
- B:
- Saw a girl I never met
- B:
- Sent a zephyr over the 'net
- G:
- Zephyr message came on my screen
- G:
- Cutest z-sig I've ever seen
- BG:
- Zephyr fun with my dot anyone and the oh oh Athena Z-write
- BB:
- Tell me more tell me more can she type really well?
- GG:
- Tell me more tell me more does he know how to spell?
[People in cluster leave room]
- G:
- Want to tell him how he makes me feel
- B:
- It says Authentic, but is she for real?
- G:
- ``Maybe we could get married someday''
- B:
- ``Uh, Please resend that I clicked it away''
- BG:
- Zephyr dreams on our minds and our screens and the oh oh Athena Z-write
[Enter construction workers they start removing tables and chairs]
- CW:
- Tell me more tell me more he's in SIPB I bet
- CW:
- Tell me more tell me more did you finger her yet
- G:
- I've used resnet in the nude
- B:
- Just need one hand to type in xzewd
- G:
- Zephyr loving that no one expects
- B:
- Zephyr loving is safer than sex
- BG:
- Zephyr desire 'til my tickets expire using oh oh Athena Z-write
- BG:
- Zephyr souls meeting in the Fishbowl through the oh oh Athena Z-write
[Computers and desks now all removed.]
[Enter Secretary. She sits down behind the desk.]
- BG:
- Tell me more, tell me more.
(Song ends.)
- Secretary:
- May I help you two?
[Boy and girl suddenly realize that the Fishbowl is GONE. the secretary
flips a sign over the desk that says STUDENT SERVICES CENTER]
- B or G:
- Wh...what happened?
- Secretary:
- Would you like an add-drop form?
- T1:
- Where did the cluster go?
- TG:
- (like the police at the scene of an accident)
Move along, there's nothing to see here.
