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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 September 2009 12:40AM

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Comment author: dclayh 29 September 2009 04:19:27AM *  9 points [-]

I don't know, this "Mortimer Q. Snodgrass" fellow seems pretty suspicious to me. I mean, a weird name like that is probably an alias. And "Ordinary Lane"? At a power of 2 no less? Tell me he plays tennis and I'll be convinced he did it.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 May 2015 01:20:27AM 0 points [-]

Mortimer Snodgrass? Or maybe it was Homer Dalrymple. :) Either way, it sounds like a mad scientist's name.

(Six year late reply, I know, but I just heard the relevant chapter of HPMOR and was curious to see if anyone else caught the reference!)