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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>film at 11</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="filk.html" title="filk"/><link rel="next" href="filter.html" title="filter"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">film at 11</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filk.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="filter.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="film-at-11"/><dt xmlns="" id="film-at-11"><b>film at 11</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a
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sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering.
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“<span class="quote"><a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a> crashes; film at 11.</span>” “<span class="quote">Bug
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found in scheduler; film at 11.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional
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information will be available at some future time,
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<span class="emphasis"><em>without</em></span> the implication of anything particularly
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ordinary about the referenced event. For example, “<span class="quote">The mail file
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server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory.
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Film at 11.</span>” would indicate that a major failure had occurred but
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that the people working on it have no additional information about it as
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yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is
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liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend
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time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to
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which will appear on the normal “<span class="quote">11:00 news</span>”, if people will
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just be patient.</p></dd><dd><p>The variant “<span class="quote">MPEGs at 11</span>” has recently been cited (MPEG
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is a digital-video format.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filk.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="filter.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">filk </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> filter</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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