SA> Can't check, but here's another example from Turbo C/C++ V.3 for DOS.
SA> Online help - under section: sound()
SA> True story: 7 Hz is the resonant
SA> frequency of a chicken's skull cavity.
SA> This was determined empirically in
SA> Australia, where a new factory
SA> generating 7-Hz tones was located too
SA> close to a chicken ranch: When the
SA> factory started up, all the chickens
SA> died.
Showing, once again, that many programmers have entirely way too much time on
their hands.
:-)
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* Origin: Tanktalus' Tower BBS (1:250/102)
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