* Tom Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Les Bell wrote:
>
> > Tom Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > I grogged what you have been writing,
> > and for the examples I gave more elaborate alternatives that may be better
> > understood by more people than the original text.
> > <<
> >
> > ROF,L! What a glorious, albeit unintentional, demonstration of the point. I
> > think you mean "grokked", but I rather liked your new construction of
> > "grogged", redolent as it is of rum-soaked hours spent poring over the
> > text.
>
> LOL! The use of the slang word "grok" was intentional (from Robert
> Heinlein's "Stranger in a strange land", if anybody here recalls ever
> reading that), but the mis-spelling was not.
Wassa mattuh U? Heinlein is required reading for geeks! "I grok,
therefore I am!", "Front!"
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