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A while ago, somebody posted a list of stupid programs, mostly spoofs of other ones. Here's all the followup I could muster.
Run around a dungeon, kill monsters, and catch falling shapes. [Distributed by UseNyet]
Typesetter; AuToMaTiCaLlY cApItAlIzEs EvErY oThEr LeTtEr. Requires 7Gb of disk space; more if you want a second font. Must be pronounced "hechhh" (to rhyme with "blechhh"), or else the author will make you read The HeXbook. Also available: MetalFONT, for designing baroque logos for heavy-metal bands.[Written by Donald Newt]
Compresses tape archives. Thus, files can be tarred and feathered. [Standard UnixTM utility]
NutSHell, the smallest UnixTM shell yet. Version 1.0 (the only one released so far) includes only 'cd' and 'echo <string constant>'. GNU-nsh, to be released later this year, is expected to be much more powerful, with built-in Bourne, Korn and C shell emulators. The executable is expected to go from 306 bytes to 7Mb with this release, however.
Unfortunately, this package will not be released, since the name was deemed to be oxymoronic.
X-rated windowing package. Includes obscenely-shaped windows, salacious prompts, erotic background patterns, and mouse cursors shaped like genitalia. Perfect for the window user with a twelve-year-old's mind. Warning: susceptible to viruses.
And for you legal types out there, an actual quote (typo?) from a University of Utah research paper: "Unix is a registered bell of AT&T trademark laboratories."
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