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   From: news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com   
      
   On 01/11/2025 04:31, Kaz Kylheku wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-01, Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >> Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?   
   >>   
   >> Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC   
   >   
   > It's not that programmer confuse them; rather, the above is the key to   
   > the mystical link between the two. It's the underpinning for why Tim   
   > Burton's _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ makes sense.   
   >   
   > I went trick-or-treating today with the kids; there was someone in   
   > a Santa suit!   
   >   
   I bet you he had a long beard.  I knew it! - one of those "octal beardies", an   
   old-time UNIX   
   programmer for sure!  He probably started on a PDP-11.  :)   
      
   Mike.   
      
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