I heard this on a CBC jazz show Tonic last night, best laugh I had all day. It is a takeoff on a poem by Dorothy Parker
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Tk; my $mw=tkinit; $mw->geometry('+300+300'); $mw->fontCreate('big', -family=>'arial', -weight=>'bold', -size=>int(-18*18/14)); my $c=$mw->Canvas(-width=>300,-height=>125,-bg=>'white')->pack; $c->Pixmap( 'martini', -data => get_one() ); my $t1 = $c->create('text',310,40, -anchor=>'w', -font => 'big', -text=>'My limit is 1 martini'); my $t2 = $c->create('text',310,60, -anchor=>'w', -font => 'big', -text=>'2 at the very most'); my $t3 = $c->create('text',310,80, -anchor=>'w', -font => 'big', -text=>'3 I\'m under the table'); my $t4 = $c->create('text',310,100, -anchor=>'w', -font => 'big', -text=>'4 I\'m under the host'); my @mover; $mw->after(500,sub{ $c->createImage(30, 10, -image => 'martini', -anchor => 'nw',); $mover[0] = $mw->repeat(5, sub{ $c->move($t1,-1,0); my ($bx,$by,$bx1,$by1)= $c->bbox($t1); if($bx == 20){$mover[0]->cancel} })}); $mw->after(4500,sub{ $c->createImage(55, 10, -image => 'martini', -anchor => 'nw',); $mover[1] = $mw->repeat(5, sub{ $c->move($t2,-1,0); my ($bx,$by,$bx1,$by1)= $c->bbox($t2); if($bx == 20){$mover[1]->cancel} })}); $mw->after(8500,sub{ $c->createImage(80, 10, -image => 'martini', -anchor => 'nw'); $mover[2] = $mw->repeat(5, sub{ $c->move($t3,-1,0); my ($bx,$by,$bx1,$by1)= $c->bbox($t3); if($bx == 20){$mover[2]->cancel} })}); $mw->after(12500,sub{ $c->createImage(105, 10, -image => 'martini', -anchor => 'nw'); $mover[3]= $mw->repeat(5, sub{ $c->move($t4,-1,0); my ($bx,$by,$bx1,$by1)= $c->bbox($t4); if($bx == 20){$mover[3]->cancel} })}); MainLoop; sub get_one{ my $o = qq(/* XPM */ static char * o_xpm[] = { "24 24 2 1", " c None", ". c #000000", " ", " ", " .................... ", " .................. ", " ................ ", " .............. ", " ............ ", " .......... ", " ........ ", " ...... ", " .... ", " .. ", " .. ", " .. ", " .. ", " .. ", " .. ", " .. ", " ............. ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " "}; ); return $o; }

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum