On 3/1/2014 11:20 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *meekerdb
*Sent:* Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:14 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: The solar example of a town in Germany
On 3/1/2014 10:59 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[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.
Interesting; always thought it originated from that book. So then is grok
steganography?
It's usually credited to Heinlein, but I'll bet Heinlein had read some of Hein's grooks;
he published several books of them in english. I think I still have a couple.
Brent
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
