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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: why is a kermit?
Message-ID: <4045@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 90 17:50:21 GMT
References: <524@research.cc.flinders.oz>
Reply-To: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <524@research.cc.flinders.oz> phata@research.cc.flinders.edu.au (Zax) writes:
>
>did you ever get a question that was really simple and obvious but bloody
>near impossible to answer.
>i just got one:
>
>		"Why is kermit called kermit?"

Frank da Cruz answers this in the Kermit book.  It is named after the
famous frog created by Bill Henson.  In the beginning, there were all
kinds of lame excuses about the name, coming from Gaelic and such.
But, in the end, they asked for and received permission to use the
name.  Ron.

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