[MindBender26]

>"Etaoin Shrdlu"

"Etaoin Shrdlu" is a pseudonym for someone in the media business, most probably the newspaper side. The "name" has been around for years.

The origins are too involved to go into fully here, but it dates back to the days of the Linotype machine and a special signal, produced by the typesetters rolling their fingers over the non-QWERTY keyboard to signal the need to correct an error in the typesetting.

Now, "Ed Sherdlu" haunts most large newsrooms, a joke by the old guys on the kids. "Ed" often appears in in-house papers as being quoted saying something weird.

Whoever used it here has their reasons, unknown to me, but like "A friend of Bill W." or "Dr. Bob," it has a special meaning to many.

[zeugma]

Etaoin Shrdlu are also the most frequently used letters in the english language in order of most frequent to lesser frequency.