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- From: malcolm@portia.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Hugh Malcolm)
- Subject: Re: More people would use gopher if ...
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- Organization: Murdoch University
- References: <1een7bINN3hg@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 09:53:39 GMT
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- bill@rsphys.anu.edu.au (Bill Alford) writes:
- if you asked people outside of the US what a gopher was
- >you would probably get a reply of 'I don't know'. I know roughly what a gopher
- >is but the rest of the world would not know
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- Most 10 year old Australians would be quite familiar with gophers,
- either from an interest in what was once called Natural History, or
- form the impact of American cultural imperialism via tv cartoons.
- What's the big deal about the name? It's established, you won't change
- it now. The pun with go fer is both apt and clever, any Mensa member
- would agree.
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