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Comment Themes I've encountered (Score 1) 961

Some themes I've encountered:
  • NT servers were named after ducks (Huey, Dewey, Louie, Launchpad, Darkwing)
  • In early days, UNIX hosts were rodents or other critters. (mole, weasel, ferret, groundhog)
  • As the number of servers grew, we started an 'early space program/rockets' theme. (mercury, apollo, atlas, titan, saturn, redstone, etc.)
  • One machine got named 'bigdog' after Purdue All-American Glenn Robinson. (I thought a Purdue basketball theme would've been funny, but it never took off. Guess 'joe-barry-carrol.lib.purdue.edu, mount.lib.purdue.edu, wooden.lib.purdue.edu didn't have the right ring.)
  • At some contract work I did before the company hired a full time sysadmin, we used a 'Watergate' theme. (somebody named a machine haldeman and *poof*, erhlichman, liddy, woodward, bernstein, etc. popped up shortly afterward)

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