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From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gribnif: what does it MEAN?
Message-ID: <2825@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 8 Apr 90 15:06:43 GMT
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In article <261E6C25.10489@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
>	You're absolutely right.  My bubugged the girl that works the
>Gribnif booth in '88 about the meaning in Gribnif, and never got an
>answer.  Undaunted, he tried again this year, and still got nowhere.  
>Excepth that the girl told him to watch M*A*S*H to find out.  We were
>told that this was classified information, and that only 1 person at 1
>show came up and knew what Gribnif means.  I wonder if it's important.
>
I happen to know that guy [Richard] you are talking about - and I believe it
was the show in Detroit last summer... Gribnif is actually a character in some
fantasy novel, but when Richard told me what it meant, I filed it away in my
head under 'useless knowledge which won't come up again' and promptly
forgot it. A little note of aside: Dan Wilga was at the booth, and asked
Richard what it meant - apparently HE didn't know, and when he found
out, he was so grateful that he gave Richard a free copy of Neodesk!!!

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|S. Alan Ezust                                |  depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca|
|McGill University School of Computer Science |  Montreal, Quebec, Canada   |
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