Humour is somewhat culture bound. The most active promoters of fun with Perl culture back in the early 2000s seemed to be London.pm and the Paris Perl Mongueurs (sic). Well, I remember being unable to stimulate any interest in fun with perl culture at Sydney.pm back then ... so I hung out on the once super active, now dormant fwp mailing list and even the London.pm list for a while. Though the founder of the Acme namespace, ocker TheDamian, was based in Melbourne back then, he spent most of his time overseas and I'm not aware of much fun with perl activity at Melbourne.pm either. From afar, the fun with Perl culture in the USA seemed to me to be less active than Europe, with some notable exceptions, including Larry himself, merlyn, japhy, Schwern, Ingy, the lovely David H Adler Esq. and Elaine -HFB- Ashton.

Lighter Side of Perl Culture Refs

• The History of Acme::Bleach and Acme::EyeDrops

• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part I): Introduction
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part II): JAPH
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part III): Obfu
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part IV): Golf
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part V): Poetry
• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part VI): April Fools

• "Secret" operators
• Hidden features of Perl
• Re: Hidden features of Perl (More Secret Operator References)
• Re: Hiding your Script (Security through Obscurity References)
• List of polyglot obfus (Re: Christmas poem since 1988)
• Acme::EyeDrops (you may find some historical items of interest in the long docs for this module)

Added later:

• Sad News: David H Adler (DHA) has passed away (Nov 2021)

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