belg4mit onomatopoetically offered:

<>!*''#              waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
^@`$$-               carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash
*!'$_                splat bang tick dollar underscore
%*<>#4               percent splat waka waka number four
&)../                ampersand right-paren dot dot slash
{~|**SYSTEM HALTED   curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash
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Is it just me, or does anyone else envision two kids sitting cross-legged across from one another, clapping their hands, knees, and each others hands as they chant this rhyming incantation? I think this is the basis for a whole new area of Perl poetry!

Nice discussion. I do think I might be alone in using the american predilection for calling a dollar a 'buck' in my pronunciations while muttering perl code to myself:

• $var: "buck var"
• $_: "buck bar"
• etc...

Matt

Update: Okay, belg4mit did make a 'bucks' reference. I'm not alone after all! Except perhaps with my reading retention skills. ;-)