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* ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'' featured a car called the '''S'''uper '''L'''uxurious '''O'''mnidirectional '''W'''hatchamajigger. It's better than it's previous name, the [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter.]]
* ''[[C.H.U.D.]]'' stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, and is a lot of fun to pronounce. {{spoiler|Well, it actually stands for Contaminated Hazard Urban Disposal.}}
* Everyone knows that HAL 9000 ('''H'''euristic/'''Al'''gorithmic), the sentient computer in the movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' is named such that if you take the next letter after each letter in its name, you get IBM. Leonard Wheat, in his book ''Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory'', argues that this is not a coincidence (in spite of Arthur Clarke's insistence). Wheat plausibly explains the origin of the 9000 in the name, and also goes on to argue (convincingly!) that the moon monolith's official designation of TMA-1 should actually be spelled "TMA ONE" and is an anagram for "NO MEAT". Wheat's [
** Incidentally TMA stands for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly, since the first monolith was buried in the Tycho crater on the moon and was discovered only because it produced odd readings in the moon's magnetic field. This mentioned only in the book (kinda self-explanatory, though).
** This may be countered that we have an "Over 9000" in the present, when if ''God forbid'' someone would use the number, even if he has little relation with the internet, it'd be considered that he knew and is trying to make fun of it. However, since the book is written so early in time, only a true paranoid would accuse him of this. So today's paranoia was yesterday's "keen observational skills". Compare "What if Shakespeare lived in our time" (I'm almost wishing there's no trope for this).
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