From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-10T04:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Syck 0.50 -- The new YAML is here for testing

George Ogata wrote:

> ...the third time... and it has to mean something...

It's a popular slogan amongst the Merchant Marine.  They say it all the 
time.  It's similar to saying "lickety split."  You can get it on mugs 
and badges.  I first saw mention of it in a kitschy painting displayed 
at the museum in Balboa Park.

Later, it became the title of a popular e-zine in Canada.  Three 
siblings who did these great crafts like: turning your shoes inside-out 
and sewing them back together that way or games you could play with bird 
feed.  The art was really wild.  But the kids got busted by their folks 
because the kids were hosting the zine on the server that their dad was 
using for sensitive mortgage loan information.  It got closed.

Anyway, you can read it all on Wikipedia.  It was a really big deal.

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