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Even Urban Dictionary is no help with this one. What?
It was totally non sequitur. Also very old. Maybe obscure.
http://www.bash.org/?10739
I think it's still in the top 200 quotes on the site.
Oh, first google result if I hadn't used quotes. Duh.
Without confirmation bias, would that actually have helped? I'm certain I don't know what that would look to someone who didn't know what I was going for. But I have the Illusion of Transparency on my mind since I saw someone catch it while trying to help someone with it.
Yes - I'd suspect that the phrase as used in the top search result was the canonical version, then search for that instead, and find it had a lot more hits than the quoted original search and the first reference is repeated several times.
I meant, would that have told you what you originally meant to find out.
Did you only want to know where it came from?
No, I didn't only want to know where it came from.
Yes, it's clear from context in the link that it doesn't mean anything.