Eric Conspiracy

n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a
sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was
doubtless influenced by the numerous Eric jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre.
There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom
than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are
correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he
of the Allman style described under indent style ) and Erik Fair (co-author
of NNTP).