Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!sco!brianm From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: GROK THIS!! Keywords: grok Message-ID: <1851@scolex> Date: 5 Dec 88 18:58:41 GMT References: <1289@leah.Albany.Edu> <3454@ttidca.TTI.COM> <767@quintus.UUCP> <1803@scolex> <14804@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 27 In article <14804@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >In article <1803@scolex> brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes: >>The book was "Red Planet" by Robert A. Heinlein. Heinlein was > >I had only read Red Planet at most three times, but this did not >agree with what I remembered, so I reread it last night. While the >sharing of the water of life and the (related) growing-together do >occur in the book, nowhere does it use the word `grok'. The only >Martian words that appear are proper names (Gekko, K'boomch). Chris is right. I re-read the book after someone asked me to find it, and indeed it wasn't there. Teach me to trust my memory :-) So, in front of all you people (you'll have to imagine this) Open Mouth, Put foot in mouth zipper lips. mbgpl ghourst nmplrs -- Brian Moffet {uunet,decvax!microsoft,ucscc}!sco!brianm -or- ...sco!alar!brian "Evil Geniuses for a better tomorrow!" My fish and company have policies. I have opinions.