<story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Corun</author><text>Turns out it&amp;#x27;s an easter egg referring to a song.&lt;p&gt;Sadly while many people enjoyed it, others were annoyed by it. And the author has now removed it.&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to relate with people who not only would be annoyed by something like this, but are annoyed about it enough to push their view on the internet to the point that the author feels the need to remove it.&lt;p&gt;In my view, the best response to those people? Update it to a more recent, or perhaps a more recognisable reference. Perhaps &amp;quot;Rocket Man&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>The person asking the Q wasn&amp;#x27;t annoyed by it as far as I can tell (just understandably confused).&lt;p&gt;And the author&amp;#x27;s initial response was to leave the easter egg in, but to just fix the bug in it, since this behaviour was never intended (the intent was to trigger the easter egg on error condition, the bug was that it also triggered on manpath lookups).&lt;p&gt;Later in the thread the author mentions they eventually removed it completely after &amp;quot;some reflection&amp;quot;, but they don&amp;#x27;t really expand on their reasons.&lt;p&gt;Were people annoyed? Was the author pressured? Was that the reason?</text></comment>
<story><title>Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Corun</author><text>Turns out it&amp;#x27;s an easter egg referring to a song.&lt;p&gt;Sadly while many people enjoyed it, others were annoyed by it. And the author has now removed it.&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to relate with people who not only would be annoyed by something like this, but are annoyed about it enough to push their view on the internet to the point that the author feels the need to remove it.&lt;p&gt;In my view, the best response to those people? Update it to a more recent, or perhaps a more recognisable reference. Perhaps &amp;quot;Rocket Man&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antihero</author><text>Hell is for the humourless.</text></comment>