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Roald Dahl had a similar idea in the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance_is_Mine_Inc.

The plan is simple: Pantaloon is always at the Penguin Club, so they'll show up and ask for him to come out. George will punch him and then escape in the rented 1934 Chevrolet the narrator has waiting.

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Hrm ... HN's URL parser is stripping the finial stop, which is part of the actual URL and not sentence punctuation.

Angle brackets ... actually help in this instance:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vengeance_is_Mine_Inc.>

... to be clear: I've been adopting bracketed links of late, largely as that's what I'm already doing on Markdown-based sites and documents. This is the first time I've found that it actually confers a practical advantage.

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