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Yeah, it's obscure. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's a hilarious sci-fi spoof. The two main characters, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, end up on a spaceship that carried a couple million frozen residents of a planet, doomed due to overpopulation. People on that planet had intended to evacuate their planet in three phases, workers, middle class, and leaders. They started with middle class people because they deemed them less essential. Middle class people, such as telephone sanitizers. In the end, the other two groups never left their planet because it wasn't overpopulated any more. There is a punchline to that story that I won't reveal in case you want to read it.

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Well I do now! That was one of the things in the rabbit hole, but it didn't get specific enough for the telephone sanitizer ref. THAT caught my eye because I spent my career at a telecom (we didn't have sanitizers).

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