import random limericks = [ """ A programmer who's name was Searle Once wrote a long program in Perl. Despite very few quirks No one got how it works, Not even the interpreter. """, """ There was a young lady of Maine Who set up IPsec VPN. Problems didn't arise 'til other vendors' device had to add she to that VPN. """, """ One day a programmer from York started his own Vyatta fork. Though he was a huge geek, it still took him a week to get the damn build scripts to work. """, """ A network admin from Hong Kong knew MPPE cipher's not strong. But he was behind NAT, so he put up we that, sad network admin from Hong Kong. """, """ A network admin named Drake greeted friends with a three-way handshake and refused to proceed if they didn't complete it, that standards-compliant guy Drake. """ ] def get_random(): return limericks[random.randint(0, len(limericks) - 1)]