From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: osten@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu
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Raw Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 17:20:07 PDT
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 94 17:20:07 PDT
To: osten@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks' mail database does exist (fwd)
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You wrote:
| > It does my heart good to hear someone use the term 'grok' -- I don't
| > hear many folks use that term very much anymore. ,-)
| >
| > - paul
| >
| >
| What does it mean?
To drink. :)
(Actually, it means to understand something fully &
completely, but the literal translation is 'to drink.' See Robert
Hienlien's Stranger in a Strange Land for its origins.)
Adam
--
Adam Shostack adam@bwh.harvard.edu
Politics. From the greek "poly," meaning many, and ticks, a small,
annoying bloodsucker.
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