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- From: wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David Wald)
- Subject: Reaperssessing the title (was Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.160630.3702@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- References: <BxKyrF.MD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Nov12.133425.29571@aston.ac.uk> <leo.721644482@galaxy>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:06:30 GMT
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- In article <leo.721644482@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
- >thompsmr@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Thompson) writes:
- >
- >> Title "Reaper Man" - play on "Repo Man", a film by Alex Cox.
- >
- >This used to be mentioned in earlier versions of the APF, but was
- >removed after people pointed out to me that is just the opposite:
- >*'Repo Man'* is a pun on the phrase 'reaper man', which apparantly has
- >been around for quite a while...
-
- Can we get a ruling from TP on this? (Or did we get one that I
- missed?) I know that "Repo Man" was the first thing I thought of when
- I saw the book title, since I wasn't familiar with the term "Reaper
- Man," in that form. While the film title may have come from "Reaper
- Man" originally, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the book
- title was a take off on the film title.
-
- -David
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