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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: what is The Stump really?
Message-ID: <6304@duke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 10:12:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: duke.6304
Posted: Tue Sep 17 10:12:29 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:43:29 EDT
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Organization: Duke University
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Summary: 

In article <520@lasspvax.UUCP> swb@lasspvax.UUCP (Scott Brim) writes:
>In "Dream Dancer" by Janet Morris, the first space platform
>built above the Earth (about a thousand years before the events in the
>book) is called "The Stump."  The origin of the name is "lost in
>antiquity".  This smacks of an idea that has a basis in reality.  Is
>this a nickname for the current space station project?  Did it perhaps
>come from another book?
>.....Scott Brim


Where I come from (he says, pulling a dusty and battered straw cowboy
hat from under piles of listings)  somebody who was in a tight stop
was said to be "Up a stump."

-- 

			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)


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