On 2 March 2014 20:13, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/1/2014 10:59 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *LizR > > > > Speaking of which, Heinlein would have loved this: > > > > http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140302.html > > > > I grok that > > One of the best words ever invented* - IMO -thank you Heinlein. > > > I think it was suggested by the poems of Piet Hein. > > *Piet Hein* (16 December 1905 - 17 April 1996) was a > Danish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_people>scientist, mathematician, > inventor, designer, author, and poet, often > writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "*Kumbel*" meaning > "tombstone<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_stone>". > His short poems, known as *gruks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grook>* or > grooks (Danish: *gruk*), first started to appear in the daily newspaper > "*Politiken > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politiken>*" shortly after the Nazi > occupation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark> in April > 1940 under the pseudonym "*Kumbel > Kumbell*".[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Hein_%28scientist%29#cite_note-1> > > The poems contained anti-nazi meanings which could only be grasped > intuitively by the Danish > In other words, "grokked" - what a brilliant explanation. It's so beautiful that it must be true :-)
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