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by rob74 1783 days ago
Er...

Elton John - "Rocket Man": released April 1972

ABBA - "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!": released 1979

So maybe it's more recognizable, but definitely not more recent.

Aside from that, the joke of printing this phrase at 00:01 only works with the ABBA song, because it refers to a man after midnight...

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Specifically, "half past twelve".
The full title:

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

The lyrics are

> Half past twelve [00:30] and I'm watching the late show in my flat all alone, how I hate to spend the evening on my own

The chorus later continues

> Gimme Gimme Gimme a man after midnight

Ah, Ok, guess I'm only a half ABBA expert - unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore to correct it...
`sudo dancingqueen`
I'm half curious and half afraid of this being an actual thing. Do I try it or not? I feel like doing this on a remote VM spun up just to do it would be wasted with no speakers. Do I spin up a VM on my local machine? Or screw it, where's the fun in no risk?
I can't find any references to that kind of a string by running 'strings' on /usr/bin/sudo or the sudo libraries.

Of course a more reasonable approach would be to grep the source code.