millenium hand and shrimp - alt.fan.pratchett

Melding fra diskusjonen millenium hand and shrimp

Terry Pratchett

Flere alternativer 2 Mar 1996, 09:00

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Fra: Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk>

Dato: 1996/03/02

Emne: Re: millenium hand and shrimp

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In article <3134f439.5881...@news.demon.co.uk>
geo...@hanslope.demon.co.uk "George Mahoney" writes:

> Shadow <ee4...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

> >does anyone out there know if 'millenium hand and shrimp' is a Pterry version
> of
> >some other saying, or is it just completely made up???
> >if so, why???
> >--
> I think I remember reading somewhere that the phrase came from some computer
> generated "poetry" that TP saw. Anyone else able to confirm?

Yep. It was a program called Babble, or something similar. I put in all
kinds of stuff, including the menu of the Dragon House Chinese take-away
because it was lying on my desk. The program attempted to make
'coherent' phrases (!) out of it all.

Terry Pratchett

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