This is the 2nd afghan “recipe” posted by Jan Metzger on the Usenet via Prodigy in 1992, and uses multiple yarns at a jumbo gauge similar to the Hot Damn Afghan #1. Most of the original text of the posting is archived in a 1996 email from “DLevs” at WoolWorks.org

Jan Metzger, owner of Jan’s Village Yarn in Fallbrook, CA, published the instructions of how she had copied (circa 1981) knitted afghans she had seen at high-end department stores where she resided. A more detailed description of how she named the project is archived on Wool Works.