Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre

[apollinaire]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%C3%89mile_Jean-Baptiste_Litre

[mayormcmatt]

Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.

[salmonfamine → mayormcmatt]

And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.

[throwup238 → mayormcmatt]

The Museum of Hoaxes publishes their own Top 100 April Fools list: https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/

[gilleain]

Ah, like 'Arkhan Land', rediscoverer of the Land Raider.

(And of course, Jimmy Space).

[joshabrown00]

Haha, adding this to my list of funny academic pranks. This is right up there with the MIT balloon at the Harvard-Yale game.

[pyinstallwoes]

How much of standardization or cannon is 'invented' in the same exact way? Very William S. Burroughs.

[cafard → pyinstallwoes]

Well, or Thomas Pynchon.

I grew up seeing Al Kaline in the baseball box scores, and much later reflected that I would have rolled my eyes had I seen the name in The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow.

[cafard]

I found myself wondering whether this was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Littr%C3%A9.

[hyperhello]

Why make the rule that capital letters only be used when the unit is named after a person, if the rule is discarded the instant it is inconvenient?

[jurgenaut23]

lol, I love this. These gems are one of the reason I hang out on HN ;-)

[anordal]

He couldn't have come up with a more french name? /s