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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>and there was much rejoicing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="amper.html" title="amper"/><link rel="next" href="Angband.html" title="Angband"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">and there was much rejoicing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="amper.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Angband.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="and-there-was-much-rejoicing"/><dt xmlns="" id="and-there-was-much-rejoicing"><b>and there was much rejoicing</b></dt></dt><dd><p>[from the movie <i class="citetitle">Monty Python and the Holy
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Grail</i>.]</p></dd><dd><p>Acknowledgement of a notable accomplishment. Something long-awaited,
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widely desired, possibly unexpected but secretly wished-for, with a suggestion
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that something about the problem (and perhaps the steps necessary to make it
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go away) was deeply disturbing to hacker sensibilities.</p><p>In person, the phrase is almost invariably pronounced with the same
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portentious intonation as the movie. The customary in-person (approving)
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response is a weak and halfhearted “<span class="quote">Yaaaay...</span>”,
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with one index finger raised like a flag and moved in a small circle.
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The reason for this, like most of the Monty Python
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<span class="foreignphrase"><i class="foreignphrase">oeuvre</i></span>, cannot easily be explained
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outside its original context.</p><p>Example: "changelog entry #436: with the foo driver brain damage taken
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care of, finally obsoleted BROKEN_EVIL_KLUDGE. Removed from source tree.
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