[HN Gopher] Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre
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       Claude Emile Jean-Baptiste Litre
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 114 points
       Date   : 2024-04-28 22:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | gilleain wrote:
       | Ah, like 'Arkhan Land', rediscoverer of the Land Raider.
       | 
       | (And of course, Jimmy Space).
        
       | jurgenaut23 wrote:
       | lol, I love this. These gems are one of the reason I hang out on
       | HN ;-)
        
       | mayormcmatt wrote:
       | Adding this to my list of favorite April Fool's pranks -- my
       | favorite being the recently featured islands of San Serriffe.
        
         | salmonfamine wrote:
         | And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days
         | -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.
        
         | throwup238 wrote:
         | The Museum of Hoaxes publishes their own Top 100 April Fools
         | list: https://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/
        
       | joshabrown00 wrote:
       | 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 wrote:
       | How much of standardization or cannon is 'invented' in the same
       | exact way? Very William S. Burroughs.
        
       | anordal wrote:
       | He couldn't have come up with a more french name? /s
        
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