The trick here (and in someone else’s “Thrilla in Mozilla”) is that you don’t need to understand the humor or reference to understand the code. It’s just a nice little bonus, since threader is already a perfectly reasonable[0] name.

This is different from insisting that helper functions in brains.c be of type pinkyfunc_t.

[0] I was tempted to undercut my own point and write cromulent there instead.