Re: [9fans] Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig? The hidden conspiracy revealed at last....

[Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Dan Cross wrote:

> Today, I noticed something for perhaps the fifth time, yet it only just
> registered.  While listening to the strains of, ``TV Casualty'', I
> happened to glance at the back of the Misfits album I was listening to
> (Legacy of Brutality, highly recommended if you have the means), and
> spot a familiar looking bit of text highly reminiscent of our favorite
> operating system:  ``plan 9'' appears in the lower center portion of
> the back of the CD jewel box.
>
> Now, why is this?  Could it be that Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig were
> colluding on operating systems research at the time?  Did Rob somehow
> financed or otherwise influenced the musical direction of the Misfits?
> Granted, they came well before Plan 9 from Bell Labs, but still, some
> clues in the lyrics are striking.  Consider this line from, ``where
> eagles dare'': ``We walk the streets at night, we go where eagles
> dare!'' Indeed, hasn't Plan 9 gone where eagles dare in terms of
> pushing some simple primitives to their limits?
>
> Coincidence?  I think not.

I've seen this on other albums as well. There is also a band called "Plan
9".


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