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Today I learned that this name was actually an inside joke/reference in Godel, Escher, Bach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu https://en.wikipedia.or
by arafa 6y ago
Today I learned that this name was actually an inside joke/reference in Godel, Escher, Bach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu
I definitely didn't understand at the time I read, but it's so much easier to research stuff like this now.
- twirlip 6y agoIt was also an inside joke in Mad Magazine. I had initially thought it was Yiddish or a Don Martinism.