Where does "Your Kitten of Death awaits" come from? [closed]

Question

If you run SBCL (at least on Windows, I use CLISP at home), you get the message, "Your Kitten of Death awaits." I suspect that this has something to do with some form of inside joke (like Super Cow Powers). I've tried Googling and I have found nothing particularly useful (I suppose that it is mentioned elsewhere on the 'net is of some, if not much, use).

If this seems more of a SuperUser or ServerFault question, please let me know and I will ask on their forums instead.

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UPDATE:

It seems that the origin of this quote is from a commit by Christopher Rhodes to version 1.54 of the original source (thanks to Daniel A. White for finding the fild name). I'm not sure if that will prove useful, but it is an additional avenue to approach this query.

Answer 1

Here is an interesting discussion on this very topic: http://www.bitchx.com/log/lisp-f/lisp-f-02-Feb-2010/lisp-f-02-Feb-2010-00.php

They seem to suggest it comes from one of the following:

• The nursing home cat that could detect when someone was going to die (Recent book written about the "Grim Reapurr")
• The long comic series by Sluggy Freelance about satanic kittens (starts here, ends here)
• Or is inspired by Death's kitten(s) in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (Image here)

Answer 2

Here is a diff that has it, but its been removed in this patch.

http://www.peerweb.nl/sbcl/sbcl-1.0.14.10-windows.patch