In the popular kids' books "Where's Waldo?", a goofy looking cartoon guy in a striped shirt and pointed hat is hidden amongst crowds, either at the beach or a fair, or any other such locale. In the theory proposed by Schrödinger, a cat in a box could either be alive or dead (or both), and you don't know until you look (this is has to do with quantum physics and the effect of observation on the state of matter).
Put them both together, and what have you got? Schrödinger's McConnell
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