{"id":1350,"date":"2025-08-22T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:01:50","slug":"tom-lehrer-easter-egg-in-nsa-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/1350","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lehrer Easter Egg in NSA Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Lehrer worked at the NSA from 1955 through 1957, and a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/opalescentopal.bsky.social\/post\/3luxxx27nos23\">thread<\/a> on BlueSky reveals one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2021\/Jul\/14\/2002762807\/-1\/-1\/0\/GAMBLERS-RUIN.PDF\/GAMBLERS-RUIN.PDF\">papers<\/a> he wrote while there included a bibliographical entry for &#8220;Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Remannian Manifolds&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lobachevsky_(song)\">Lobachevsky<\/a>. Apparently the joke went unnoticed for almost 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TomLehrer\/comments\/1mtaxb7\/tom_lehrer_pranked_the_nsa\/\">r\/TomLehrer<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer worked at the NSA from 1955 through 1957, and a recent thread on BlueSky reveals one of the papers he wrote while there included a bibliographical entry for &#8220;Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Remannian Manifolds&#8221; by Lobachevsky. Apparently the joke went unnoticed for almost 60 years. 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