Funny Incident

Today I was reading through the manual for the Automated Technical Manual system that I'll be using. I'll be doing a lot of this, as they can't actually train me on the ATM system till after the new year.

Anyways, the system uses various SGML tags to generate the contents of a technical manual. Naturally, after it gives the tags for a particular part of the manual, it shows an example of what the tag sets produce when compiled and processed and whatnot.

One particular set of tags is used to produce a cover page that contains a set of byline tags. These produce a "By: ______" with the spaces filled in by entered text. Now, for whatever reason, the manual had two different cover page examples. I can't remember why, but there they were.

The first cover page had "A. Dent" next to the byline. Now, I didn't laugh too much at that one; I caught the possible reference, but figured it could have been a coincidence, or someone making a standard "dent" joke. Then I turned a few pages and all doubt was removed.

The second byline was "F. Prefect."

Had a right chuckle over that one, I did.