From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Origin of glenda, movies and dog food
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:06:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19ff934a1451cd5976e30c7fbd847745@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
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It started long before Plan 9. Why do you think our original Unix editor was
called 'ed'?
We're thinking of renaming acid, 'necromania'.
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From: "Skip Tavakkolian" <fst@centurytel.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Origin of glenda, movies and dog food
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:14:19 -0400
Message-ID: <00bc4710a58f2c0330a93c330b2c8ef4@centurytel.net>
A lot of us, outside of the Bell Labs, have speculated that there is a
game of association at play, with references (obvious and not so
obvious) to various Ed Wood movies as well as other cult classics.
Nobody is sure about this because the Labs guys have protected the
details of their inside joke better than the Pentagon protected their
invasion plans for Somalia. There are several such pun/associations.
Have fun finding them for yourself.
BTW, anybody else consider the movie "Welcome to Woop Woop"
9-pun-worthy?
> P.S. I'm just curious -- does name 'glenda' have exactly the same origin as
> 'Plan 9' itself, or am I stretching my imagination too far ?
next reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-09 3:06 presotto [this message]
2002-10-09 6:18 ` Dan Cross
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2002-10-09 21:46 Andrew Simmons
2002-10-09 3:23 Dennis Ritchie
2002-10-15 9:51 ` Anthony Mandic
2002-10-09 0:13 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-09 6:20 ` Dan Cross
2002-10-15 9:51 ` Anthony Mandic
2002-10-15 10:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-10-08 23:53 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-08 23:14 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-09 3:48 ` Roman V. Shaposhnick
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