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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gribnif: what does it MEAN?
Summary: Finbirg?
Message-ID: <1990Apr7.205307.27852@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 7 Apr 90 20:53:07 GMT
References: <3143@castle.ed.ac.uk> <3132@water.waterloo.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <3132@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>In article <3143@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
>>
>>   I got a newsletter from Gribnif software detailing their new products
>
>I have a feeling I have heard this word somewhere before, perhaps
>in a TV show.  Does anybody know the meaning of the word?

I thought that the company was run by a guy named Finbirg (an alternate
transliteration from Yiddish compared to the more common Germanic Feinberg).
Does anyone know for sure?


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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