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Mark V. Shaney
- jfengel 5y agoIt's not "vs". It's not a court case. It's a pun, which doesn't work with "vs". It's supposed to be a middle initial V.
- st_goliath 5y agoyeah, it seems the HN submission system "fixes" a V. into vs.
- glangdale 5y agoFrom what I recall, raw Shaney output is considerably less well punctuated than the examples given. I suspect a good deal of manual clean-up has gone into these examples to keep sentence length manageable, as well as make punctuation and capitalization reasonably sane.
- samatman 5y agoPredated by Markoff Chaney of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, infamous for his notes signed -The Mgt. I wonder if it's parallel construction or homage, and rather suspect the latter.
- lalaithion 5y agoThe modern version of this is https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/ https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/