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Obie [message #115670] Wed, 18 September 2013 18:10
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From: Rob Austein 

Anybody know the origin of the name "Obie" in Jack Chalker's Well
World books?  He (Obie) claims at one point "My name is actually an
acronym but the words are so out of date that they have lost their
meaning."  Ideas, anybody?
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