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Penn and Teller's Lab Scam
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Penn and Teller help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs play a prank on Nobel-winning physicist Arno Penzias. The clip shows the gag and its setup.
It is passed around as a favorite bit of computing folklore, and resurfaces in threads about Penzias, Ritchie and Pike.
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