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"promptly" :-) It started in 1994 on the German Usenet. Edit: this is the original posting http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r570dINNahh%40snofru.informat
by bhaak 7y ago
"promptly" :-)
It started in 1994 on the German Usenet.
Edit: this is the original posting http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r570dINNahh%40snofru.informatik.uni-kiel.de http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2r570dINNahh%40snofru.i...
You'll notice the usenet group is de.talk.bizarre so it is completely understandable that people think this is just a hoax.
- em-bee 7y agoit's not clear that the joke started on usenet or offline and was just reported there. reality is that at one point all highway exits to bielefeld were closed (that's what i was told), and that triggered the joke. that this joke is still alive is astonishing. source: i have been to a conference in a city that claimed to be bielefeld. now i am not so sure anymore...