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Spotted at Lobsters is a thread about a stackoverflow question on man; why does running "man -w" report "gimme gimme gimme" when run at 00:30?
This gets this response:
Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight":
Well, he did actually put it in. A few people were amused to discover it, and we mostly forgot about it until today.
The commit in question, and more commentary over at HackerNews.
Anyone know of other good easter eggs that have cropped up unexpectedly and caught users out?
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Why "man -w" will Sometimes Print "gimme gimme gimme"
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday November 23 2017, @12:19AM
Dear lord, what was the problem? It's CREDITS. A man holding his baby, and you say some apple-pie Leave-It-To-Beaver message to your own mother? Yeah, Thank God they caught it right? Customers would've been trying to find you to kill you, death threats sent to corporate, and the Pope issues a formal condemnation.
You know, that ISN'T an Easter Egg. Sorry, don't think it qualifies after thinking about it. Sounds like a novel and interesting way to show credits for work that *shouldn't* be controversial.
That customer didn't need a sense of humor, but the jaws of life on their backside to remove their head.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.