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On 2016-06-01, Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2016 17:43:25 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2016-06-01, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> Hmm. Nobody got the MDL joke, poor as it was :-(
>>
>>I did.  I was going to make an Adventure reference, but waited for
>>someone else to do so.  "Nothing happens."
>
>      As I recall, another DEC system output something like "Twice as
> much nothing happens."  

Possibly a clever reference to the famous review of "Waiting For Godot"?

("Nothing happens. Twice.")


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