[MIT: in parody of TV newscasters]
1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a
sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering.
ITS crashes; film at 11.
Bug
found in scheduler; film at 11.
2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional
information will be available at some future time,
without the implication of anything particularly
ordinary about the referenced event. For example, The mail file
server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory.
Film at 11.
would indicate that a major failure had occurred but
that the people working on it have no additional information about it as
yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is
liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend
time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to
which will appear on the normal 11:00 news
, if people will
just be patient.
The variant MPEGs at 11
has recently been cited (MPEG
is a digital-video format.)