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monday, september 27, 2004
Mustache mission

A mission from Elvis (indirectly): find origin and etymology of phrase “crazy moon language”.

393 hits on Google. Some of them appeared to stem from Things to Say When You’re Losing a Technical Argument, a list from 2001. However, “crazy moon language” showed up on Usenet as early as 1996 — on alt.tv.the-tick.

In episode 27, season 3, “That Mustache Feeling”, the Tick has a mustache and says “I can’t read your crazy moon language”, confirmed by TICKisms. The episode aired on September 14, 1996.

There was another mission, but it was more difficult and I chose not to accept.

comments (2)

is there a crazy moon languge filter for blosxom?
kyle on 9/27/2004 01:46:08

https://jeweledplatypus.org/news/hypertext/fun/crazy.html?geek=hex
britta on 9/27/2004 01:53:51

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