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On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, steve shumaker wrote: I've noticed that. It does not seem to have yet appeared in anything that Google has indexed! Nevertheless, I have heard several old farts (who do NOT know each other, but obviously have some associates in common), who have used "dancing kangaroos and yodelling jellyfish" as a phrase to ridicule superfluous "decoration" of text. I can imagine the dancing kangaroos, but I have no idea what a yod3elling jellyfish looks or sounds like! It is certainly not the first, nor only phrase that I've heard that I can't find in Google. For example, at GSFC 45 years ago, there were frequent references to "Friden Waltz and Marchand March", which were specific arithmetic calculations that you could start and they would run for a long, extended, and noisy time. "so you can close the door of your office and take a nap, and managers will hear that you are hard at work". But can anybody identify those specific calculations? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com