• Midnitte@beehaw.org
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    22 hours ago

    I love that this originated from NJ, via Princeton and Rutgers.

    This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers University