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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3 comments from Hacker News
Perhaps not known by the younger audience, but Penn & Teller helped Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike perform a practical joke at Bell Labs: [LINK] [VIDEO]
I was around 3 y/o when Abscam went down. Now, however, I have a pretty good idea why Penn and Teller called their Bell Labs prank "lab scam". Thanks for that. [LINK] [VIDEO]
RIP Arno. Here's the video and write up of the gag Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike pulled on him: [VIDEO] [LINK] Edit: just wanted to say the hum of the universe dulled a little bit with his passing