Monks - In part inspired by the previous 'Perl songs' discussion 604738 I noticed quite a few song titles lend themselves well to Perlification. This brought to mind a possible new diversion for the Monastery: write a script which both represents AND generates a clue to a song title.

Some suggested basic 'rules': (1) Must work with use strict and use warnings (2) The code itself must 'act out' the song title (3) The OUTPUT of the script must also serve as a clue to the song title.

And three examples from the very excellent Smiths to start the ball rolling. First up, 'There is a light that never goes out':

#/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Guess the song title:\n";
# 'There is a light that never goes out' (The Smiths)

my $light = 1;
while (1) {
    $light = 0 if 1 < 0;
    print "Light is ", $light ? "on" : "off", "\n";
    sleep 1;
}
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Second example, 'Some girls are bigger than others':

#/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Guess the song title:\n";

# 'Some girls are bigger than others' (The Smiths)
for my $girl (1..5) {
    print "Girl number $girl is size ", int( rand 20 ), "\n";
    sleep 1;
}
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And finally for now, 'Stop me if you think you've heard this one before':

#/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Guess the song title:\n";

# 'Stop me if you think you've heard this one before' (The Smiths)

my %heard_before;
my @joke_topics = ('penguin', 'chicken', 'elephant', 'badger', 'ape');
JOKE:
while (1) {
    my $topic = $joke_topics[ int( rand 5 ) ];
    print "Did you hear the one about the $topic...?\n";
    if ($heard_before{ $topic }++) {
        print "...OK you better stop me, I'm repeating myself now.\n";
        last JOKE;
    }
    sleep 1;
}
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Any other ideas?

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