On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:02:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My question is historical. I am a Tomas Pynchon fan and I meet first > > time 'yoyodyne' word in his book called "V". In his book 'yoyodyne' is > > a name of hi-tech corporation. Next time I see this word in CVS manual > > (as an example of path ?yoyodyne/tc?) I want to know is CVS autors > > Pynchon fans too? Or it is some kind of coincidence? > > I've always knows 'Yoyodyne' as a Buckaroo Banzi reference. I'm thinking > you are right about Pynchon, as this seems to predate the film. > > Here are references for you: > http://www.figmentfly.com/bb/q40.html > http://www.figmentfly.com/bb/q31.html
Yoyodyne also appears in Pynchon's _The Crying of Lot 49_. Both novels predate BB (GR: 1963; CoL49: 1966). Yoyodyne is a propulsion systems company in each case. I also enjoy this definition: " YOYODYNE: the amount of force required to impart an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second to a yo-yo with a mass of one gram (cm/g/sec). " --http://wso.williams.edu/~cwilliam/stomach/yoyo.html So anyway, were the cvs documentarians John Lithgow fans or Oedipa Maas fans or neither or both? Surely there's someone on this list grizzled enough to remember. tyler _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
