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sudo Make me a sandwich
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When the monkeys-paw package is also installed.
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A monkey's paw is a talisman that grants wishes but the wishes are usually granted in a way not expected by the requester, usually as a punishment for tampering with fate.
Here, the guy requests "make me a sandwich", the monkey's paw would grant the wish by literally interpreting the wish.
If you want to see more, there is a subreddit called /r/monkeyspaw. Not sure if there's a community on Lemmy.
There sure is!
!monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz
Interesting.
So this is probably the origin of the Evil Genie idea.
It actually originates from this short story
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw
Apparently this story is also what inspired Pet Sematary.
This specific example works in english but in many languages with the dative case such a mix up cannot happen.