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Did 30 Rock reference Tim O’Reilly last night?

March 20th, 2009

View the 20 second clip:
(apologies people not in the States who haven’t configured a hack/proxy server yet to watch Hulu)  

Now imagine… If you were nerd predisposed to O’Reillyisms… if you and your friends followed him and his posse on twitter, and read the O’Reilly Radar blog, you’d be hyperventilating over twitter, too, when Tracy Jordan says, “You’re my Radar O’Reilly!”  Except he didn’t. He said, “You’re my Radar Oreily.”  That slight difference in the spelling of O’Reilly matters.  I found out tonight there was a character named Radar Oreily in a popular television show, MASH that took place in the military. (And now the helicoptor part makes so much sense…)

Le sigh…

Ah well.  One day we will reach the singularity, and Liz Lemon and Clay Shirky will be on the same panel. But for now, we wait.

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