Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Wombats? Yucko! Message-ID: <317@gymble.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 01:16:17 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.317 Posted: Sat Sep 7 01:16:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 06:01:30 EDT References: <209@nrcvax.UUCP> <3313@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 19 > From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) > Message-ID: <555@x.UUCP> > Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 00:12:21 EDT > > This is STella (via decvax!frog!wjr). I'm a guest here. > > . . . But what is a wombat, anyway? Why are they used? And on whom? > By analogy with cricketbats and baseball bats, I have the general idea, > but a little more information would be helpful. They're almost, but not entirely, unlike tennis clubs. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} seismo!umcp-cs!fred