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Is “Twenty years ago today” a reference to something?

• madmoose 5y ago
  It is a reference to both the 20th anniversary of ScummVM and the opening text in Maniac Mansion, the first SCUMM game.
  • gattilorenz 5y ago
    That's probably the reference in this case, but it's also the opening line of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles, which I suspect might have popularized the sentence? Or is it just a very common idiom in English?
    • madmoose 5y ago
      Sgt. Pepper might have inspired Ron Gilbert to use it in Maniac Mansion, but we took it from Maniac Mansion for the 20th anniversary :) I googled the phrase to make sure we quoted Maniac Mansion correctly and that’s when I realized it was probably a Beatles reference originally.