Days to go: 877 -- Pieces to go: 9.75

Day 123: A poll conducted among INFOCUS magazine readers had established "waka" as the proper pronunciation for the angle-bracket characters <, though some readers held out resolutely for "norkies."

WAKA WAKA BANG SPLAT

<>!*"#
^"'$$-
!*=@$_
%*<>~#4
&[]../
|{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can be appreciated only 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 underscore,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

(Fred Bremmer, Steve Kroese)