Can anyone tell me where the old MacPython "16 ton" logo came from?

[Mark]

I'm curious to understand how come the original MacPython logo is of a 16 ton 
weight (rather than, say the word 'python' or a picture of a snake)?
You can see the logo here: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/
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