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Subject: Re: Medlars
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 11:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 11:01:00 1985
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Nf-From: faust!schrei    Apr 29 11:01:00 1985


 
     No, I have never tasted a medlar; and yes, they do sound disgusting.
This response has to do with what I have just learned some twenty years
after the fact.
     If memory serves correctly (which is hardly guaranteed), NIH created
an information storage and retrieval system some time in the 60's.  It's	name was the acronym MEDLARS.  It seems that it was probably somebody's
in joke.