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Mark V. Shaney (wikipedia.org)
40 points by st_goliath on July 11, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


From what I recall, raw Shaney output is considerably less well punctuated than the examples given. I suspect a good deal of manual clean-up has gone into these examples to keep sentence length manageable, as well as make punctuation and capitalization reasonably sane.



Predated by Markoff Chaney of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, infamous for his notes signed -The Mgt.

I wonder if it's parallel construction or homage, and rather suspect the latter.


It's not "vs". It's not a court case. It's a pun, which doesn't work with "vs". It's supposed to be a middle initial V.


yeah, it seems the HN submission system "fixes" a V. into vs.


That's funny. Reminds me of the time in high school where the history teacher had written "Eugene v. Debs" on the syllabus, and we all wondered what court case that referred to.


Fixed. Sorry!




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