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Re:Knuth versus Email (1999) by raister on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:28AM (#24292562)
> My boss did his PhD at Stanford. The story goes that one day he walked straight into Knuth's office, while he had the door open. Knuth says "Oh dear, I seem to have made a mistake. Could you close the door please?". Boss closes the door. Knuth says "No, from the other side". Source: reddit
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Re:Knuth versus Email (1999) by krypton2k on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:39PM (#24299000)
I think this was from an episode of The IT Crowd.
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