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hello sailor!: interj. Occasional West Coast equivalent of
hello world; seems to have originated at SAIL, later associated with
the game Zork (which also included “hello,
aviator” and “hello, implementor”). Originally from
the traditional hooker's greeting to a swabbie fresh off the boat, of
course. The standard response is “Nothing happens here.”; of
all the Zork/Dungeon games, only in Infocom's Zork 3 is “Hello,
Sailor” actually useful (excluding the unique situation where
_knowing_ this fact is important in Dungeon...).
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