Found this lurking in some files on one of my Yahoo Groups, so thought I would share!
rr: Flicker! flicker! little modem light!
madprof: See you shine, so neat, so bright!
madprof: I wonder why you flicker so?
madprof: Is it cos you're 'effing slow?
ford prefect: Transmitting packets through the night...
rr: Slinging porno byte by byte...
rr: Watch the monitor's pink glow...
rr: As the image starts to grow...
madprof: Ping it! ping it! watch it die!
rr: Hear the hard disk crash and fry!
madprof: See the user weep and cry,
crusader: Reboot again and wonder why?
Created spontaneously on Bullet (qv) one day in 1998, by Alec Muffett (rr), Jon Anderson (madprof), Steve Usher (ford prefect) and James Eavis (crusader).