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Re:The Plumber Problem by andy81 on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:46PM (#37180282)
This bit sounds plumber-y from the article.

> Simon Orrell: My first exposure to “The Plumber Problem” was sitting in a theatre with my dad in 1973 watching “Emperor of the North” and my dad leans over to whisper, “They didn’t make culvert pipe like that back in the ’30s. It was plate, not corrugated.”

Re:The Plumber Problem by e28eta on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:59PM (#37180469)
I think people are tooting examples to him, and that’s just a recent example, not the source of the name.