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		gattilorenz on Oct 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ScummVM 2.5 “Twenty years ago today” That's probably the reference in this case, but it's also the opening line of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles, which I suspect might have popularized the sentence? Or is it just a very common idiom in English?

madmoose on Oct 12, 2021 [–]

Sgt. Pepper might have inspired Ron Gilbert to use it in Maniac Mansion, but we took it from Maniac Mansion for the 20th anniversary :)

I googled the phrase to make sure we quoted Maniac Mansion correctly and that’s when I realized it was probably a Beatles reference originally.

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