My first obfuscation (other than my summer projects, bwahaha), this code is an end-of-summer-internship tribute to my employer, Texas Instruments. I love having a job where I can play with Perl :) Runs with strict, but sorry, no -w. Tested with 5.6 and 5.004 on Solaris and 5.6 on NT. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

           undef $/;$\=
           $:;$\=~s/-//
           ; $_ =<DATA>
           ;chomp;s/\s+
           //gx;map{$a=$2;{$a.=/^[<`~]/x?/\w/x
           &&($`eq'<'?'*':$`eq'~'?"\124": $`eq
           '`'?'I':0)x hex$&:/^[^TI*]/x?$"x hex
           $&:/./? substr ($_,0,1):0;$_=$';$_ ne
$,? redo:last ;}print $a;}(split(/\|/)) __DATA__ 
  B<C|B*A*B`3|B*A*AI2I|B*A*A`3|B*A<6T9T<7|B*FT2`5
    2T7*|B*9~62I3I2~63*|B*8T7I3I7T4*|<C7~62
      I3I2~66*|1*F6T2I3I2TD*|2*F4T2`5
       2TE*|5<2     8**4T9TE*|8*4*4
        *1~BD*       |A<28*F5*|F7
                      *E*|F9*9*|FB
                       *6*|FC*4*|
                          FD*3*|
                             FE**

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