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This goes way back. Over a century ago a guy named his beef extract after the Victorian equivalent of the Force from Star Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
by djur 3y ago
This goes way back. Over a century ago a guy named his beef extract after the Victorian equivalent of the Force from Star Wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril
- sehansen 3y agoThis life force "Vril" is from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best known in hacker circles as the author of the opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" and the namesake of the Bulwer-Lytton (bad) Fiction Contest. Winning entries are a fortune staple. Or "were", since the newest entry on my Arch Linux box is from 1990.