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Brazil (3/10) Movie CLIP - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer (1985) HD

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Used purely as a joke reference to Harry Tuttle and the film's dystopian bureaucracy.

A clip from Terry Gilliam's film Brazil in which the illegal heating engineer Harry Tuttle visits Sam Lowry to fix his heating problem.

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@sdenton4 Jul 2014 Makes a joke

on HN thread New broadband users shun manditory porn filters, (UK regulator) Ofcom finds

Wel they DO speculate that the low uptake is due to evil installation people who are maybe going around disabling the filter for everyone... Like this guy: [this video]

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@mistersquid Aug 2021 Makes a joke

on HN thread Guerrilla artist faked downtown LA freeway sign in 2001

> Is artist the right term here? Seems more like guerrilla engineer or guerilla highway management person. The name "Harry Tuttle" comes to mind. [0] [0] [this video]

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@javier_e06 Sep 2023 Makes a joke

on HN thread My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards ⌨

I was considering putting a light but my desk right now resembles a wall panel from the movie Brazil. [this video] Is hard to find the middle ground between clutter and chaos.

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