Variety reports that the actress will star in a new Fox comedy, which has been green-lit for a pilot, called Linda From HR. Graham is set to play a woman named Linda Plugh, "whose one bad decision throws her monotonous, unfulfilled life into an exciting but dangerous tailspin of balancing work life, home life and a secret that could unravel everything," Variety writes.
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The TRS-80 adventure game Haunted House – one of the few commercial adventure games playable with only 4K of RAM – requires the player to type PLUGH to enter the haunted house. If the player types PLUGH inside the haunted house, the game replies, "Sorry, only one PLUGH per customer." Another TRS-80 game, Bedlam, replies to PLUGH with "You got better." Plugh.
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Kelley spent many happy years with her grandparents Isaac and Kay Plugh. Kelley's great-aunt, Sarah Plugh, lived as a Quaker and opponent of slavery. Plugh's decision to deny use of cotton and sugar because of the connection to slave labor made an impression on Kelley from an early age. Plugh was an advocate for women and told Kelley about her life as an oppressed woman.
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When the player arrives at a location known as "Y2", the player may (with 25% probability) receive the message "A hollow voice says 'PLUGH'." This magic word takes the player between the rooms "inside building" and "Y2". Some other games recognize "PLUGH" and will respond to it, usually by making a joke. A web page giving responses to "plugh" in many games of interactive fiction The adventure game Prisoner 2 contained a cavern with the word "PLUGH" written on the wall; if the player typed this word into the command parser, he was sent back to his starting point.
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A year later, Plugh purchased Associated and Independent Newspapers, an independent chain of 12 weeklies in the suburbs around Brockton.Noyes, Jesse. "Chain Buys Dozen Mass. Papers". Boston Herald, page 25, January 6, 2006.
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The Enterprise is an afternoon daily newspaper published in Brockton, Massachusetts. It is considered a newspaper of record for Brockton and nearby towns in northern Bristol and Plymouth counties, and southern Norfolk County. The Fuller-Thompson family owned The Enterprise for 115 years prior to its 1996 sale to joint venture headed by incumbent president Myron F. Fuller and new majority owner James F. Plugh, who was said to have paid between $20 million and $30 million. Plugh formed a new corporate parent for the paper, Newspaper Media Corporation, and expressed a desire to buy other New England newspapers. Plugh in 1997 purchased The Patriot Ledger and its chain of weeklies, Memorial Press Group, paying an estimated $60 million to $70 million. As newspapers moved to the internet, the two afternoon dailies—whose reporters competed in 12 suburban towns—established a common website.
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Magic words are also used as Easter eggs or cheats in computer games, other software, and operating systems (For example, the words xyzzy, plugh, and plover were magic words in the classic computer adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure).
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The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), page 21, May 24, 1997. A buyer quickly emerged: James F. Plugh, owner of The Enterprise, the Brockton daily newspaper that competed with the Ledger and several MPG papers. Plugh's Newspaper Media LLC, later renamed Enterprise NewsMedia, bought the Prescott Publishing for an estimated US$60 to US$70 million.Blanton, Kimberly.
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The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), page 21, May 24, 1997. A buyer quickly emerged: James F. Plugh, owner of The Enterprise, the Brockton daily newspaper that competed with the Ledger and several MPG papers. Plugh's Newspaper Media LLC, later renamed Enterprise NewsMedia, bought the Prescott Publishing for an estimated US$60 to US$70 million.Blanton, Kimberly.
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Even at 10, she was educated by her father on his activities, and she was able to read her father's volume, The Resources of California. Caroline Bartram Bonsall, Kelley's mother, was not a less- prominent figure. Bonsall had relations to the famous Quaker botanist, John Bartram. Unfortunately, Bonsall's parents died while at a young age, she was then adopted by Isaac and Kay Plugh.
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Six years later, Plugh yielded a majority stake in what was now known as Enterprise NewsMedia to Heritage Partners Inc., an investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Heritage was said to have paid $113 million to buy into The Enterprise, The Patriot Ledger, and Memorial Press Group. Plugh remained on board as publisher until 2004, when he became vice president of Enterprise NewsMedia and hired Kirk A. Davis as publisher. In 2006, Enterprise NewsMedia was sold to Liberty Publishing, which changed its name to GateHouse Media as part of a $225 million deal including Community Newspaper Company and its four Massachusetts dailies. The company later purchased the Taunton Daily Gazette. Headquartered in Fairport, N.Y., GateHouse is one of the largest publishers of locally based print and online media in the country as measured by its 86 daily publications. GateHouse serves local audiences of about 10 million per week across 21 states through 400 community publications and 350 local websites.
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Metasyntactic variables used commonly across all programming languages include foobar, foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, quuz, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud; several of these words are references to the game Colossal Cave Adventure. Wibble, wobble, wubble, and flob are also used in the UK.wibble. (n.d.). Jargon File 4.4.7. Retrieved February 23, 2010, from A complete reference can be found in a MIT Press book titled The Hacker's Dictionary.
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