Completely off on a tangent: A good friend of mine, getting on in years, just this weekend told me a story about the time he met one half of the composer-team behind that song, Benny Andersson of ABBA, at the absolute height of his fame somewhere in the mid to late seventies. Pleasant and low-key, almost self-effacing, superstardom or not. Someone tried to pull a fast one on him, and my friend, in a professional capacity, had to intercede. "Nah, let it be", said Benny in a very quiet Swedish way, "I can probably afford it".

Benny owns the Rival Hotel in Stockholm. They mainly play ABBA music in the lounge. I spoke at the Stockholm webperf meetup a few years ago and the organisers put me up at this hotel (side story about how flying from Munich to Boston via a night in Stockholm saved me $400 in airfare). It was a really nice, modern hotel, very comfortable, and stylish, and of course, for a 70s/80s kid, the music was great.

Me neither. I immediately thought "gimme, gimme, gimme" and "00:30 is after midnight" so clearly the answer is somehow Abba.

It's 00:30 and not 00:01 for example because she says "Half past twelve" at the beginning of the song :) (Also, it sounds like Half-assed whale :D)

My mind went to the Black Flag song, so the reference was lost on me.

Same here. "Don't ask what for..."

And I think we have a test case for probing programmer cultural heritage.