Eric Conspiracy

Eric Conspiracy n.  A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers
   named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous
   talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986; this was doubtless influenced by
   the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre.  There do
   indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom
   than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless
   they are correlated in some arcane way.  Well-known examples
   include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under
   {indent style}) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP); your editor
   has heard from about fifteen others by email, and the organization
   line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly
   from more than one site.