I think it was construed as being ’clever’ in the same sense as inserting an Easter Egg or veiled reference to obscure pop culture is today. So that would make

I think it was construed as being ’clever’ in the same sense as inserting an Easter Egg or veiled reference to obscure pop culture is today. So that would make it a Mad Men-era <nod> <nod> <wink> <wink> Easter Egg from more innocent times before identity theft was even remotely conceived of (and before executives learnt the hard way to need to assume that the world is populated by imbeciles).