I think it's clever and kind of cute. Well, maybe not so clever. There's a speech recognition "format c colon return" anecdote that apparently dates to 1994, at

I think it's clever and kind of cute. Well, maybe not so clever. There's a speech recognition "format c colon return" anecdote that apparently dates to 1994, at a meeting of the Sacramento PC User's Group, and repeated in various forms many times since then.