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- From: mae@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Mary Anne Espenshade)
- Subject: Re: BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.215119.13850@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 21:51:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.170716.12763@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:
- >I got a laugh out of Brenda's (sp?) car license plate: "RUR". Extra
- >points to whoever can post the source for THAT in-joke... :-)
-
- I thought her name sounded like Randa (for random access maybe?, that
- was certainly her function). You didn't give us a chance to answer your
- quiz here :-). As several others have already pointed out, RUR is from
- Karl Capek's "Rossum's Universal Robots". Keeping up with the references
- in this one (Dr. Karl Rossum, with Sabastian's voice yet, the
- Terminator-like construction process) was a full time job. The one I
- want to mention that nobody has pointed out yet was the appearance of
- the one type of the robot skeleton, the one that first appeared as the
- trash can following Barbara. It's a design out of a Fleisher Superman
- cartoon, more recently used repeatedly by Miyazaki in a Lupin episode
- and in Laputa.
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