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From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:46:32 +1300
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>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.

It obviously goes way beyond Ed Wood movies. The talk of "trampoline
code" a while back was an obvious reference to the leaping nuns of
the order of St Beryl from the original "Bedazzled". And then there
were the posts from "Michael Baldwin", the fictitious "New Bruce"
from the Monty Python philosophers sketch, a sketch also alluded to
in Mr Pike's "Notes on Programming in C".