This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Ununnilium: Deleted that bit because all Easter Eggs are planted knowing people will seek them out.
YYZ: I disagree. I recall hearing about (and trying for myself) something in the Windows 95 release of Microsoft Word: putting certain phrases into the grammer or spelling checker would net you some rather obscene responses. (The phrase "unable to follow directions," as I recall, came back as "unable to maintain an erection."
Ununnilium: Yeah, but even in that example, they put it in there intending people will find it.
Adam850: Would this count as an easter egg? I was watching a subtitled version of Urusei Yatsura today. I got to a part where a character that speaks an untranslated alien language spoke. The subtitle, to show that even in the original language the dialog is unintelligible, was some words written in the "Symbol" font (The Greek letter font). I paused it and opened "Character Map" and clicked on the symbols. I transcribed "the star wars parody was pretty cool" out of the Greek letters, which referred to an earlier bit in that episode. It's a subtitle easter egg.
Sci Vo: Yes.
Schrodingers Duck: I removed this example:
- Another "feature" available in all versions of Windows since Windows 95, is that if you create an empty folder on the desktop, then rename it to "My Computer.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" the folder disappears and becomes the actual object My Computer. Same thing if you rename it instead to "Control Panel.{21ec2020-3aea-1069-a2dd-08002b30309d}" the folder becomes the actual control panel. If you put the Control Panel one into the Start Menu, when you bring the mouse to focus on it, it shows each control panel icon as an entry so that you can select them same as selecting items in a start menu folder.
That's not an Easter Egg. At most, it's a bug which takes advantage of how Windows handles the My Computer object. It's like saying "if you highlight a file and press the delete button on the keyboard, it magically disappears and moves to a crazy folder called the recycle bin! Crazy!".
Seven Seals: It's not even a bug. It's a feature. It's really supposed to work this way, and it's good that it does — before Windows actually got the option of putting a folded-out Control Panel in your Start Menu, this was the way to get it.
Yinyang107: I searched for Trope, and found nothing special. What gives?
Fast Eddie: It's on the body search.
Red Wren: Removed
- The Simpsons Movie DVD has a scene where the family are back in Springfield from Alaska, and Bart asks Santa's Little Helper (the family dog) "How did you survive while we were away?"; and at least one of the subtitle streams translates the dog's barks into English!
Daibhid C: Do the secret codes in Jasper Fforde novels that unlock hidden content on Fforde's website count?
