This kind of reminds me of the story in Steven Levy's "Hackers" about how the early MIT AI Lab hackers learned the ins and outs of Chinese-language menus that w

This kind of reminds me of the story in Steven Levy's "Hackers" about how the early MIT AI Lab hackers learned the ins and outs of Chinese-language menus that were not intended for non-Chinese at Chinese restaurants (this at a time when egg rolls were still sort of exotic).