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0 pointsPaulHoule2y ago0 comments

It's a reference to a Phillip K. Dick short story, see

https://scatter.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/thoroughly-pizzled-...

A group of people who are receiving manufactured products of an automatic factory that they don't want get a chance to fill out a feedback form and write "the product was thoroughly pizzled" as a deliberate neologism to confuse the computer. The factory sent a representative who asked what this meant and they defined it as "unwanted".

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B1FF_PSUVM2y ago

Thanks for the reference, had missed that story. PKD notches up another one ...

A phrase in the story caught my attention: "all hell is bursting [instead of breaking] loose" - it's nearly a googlewhack, only two other unrelated hits.

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0 pointsPaulHoule2y ago0 comments

It's a reference to a Phillip K. Dick short story, see

https://scatter.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/thoroughly-pizzled-...

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B1FF_PSUVM2y ago

Thanks for the reference, had missed that story. PKD notches up another one ...

A phrase in the story caught my attention: "all hell is bursting [instead of breaking] loose" - it's nearly a googlewhack, only two other unrelated hits.

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