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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:24:40 -0500
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- From: Joan Boorstein <jboor@FLARE.CS.UMB.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
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- > 5) Knute Rockne/Rocky Bleier/Stone Phillips/Pebbles Rubble/Chris Rock/
- > Rocky the Flying Squirrel/Kenesaw Mountain Landis/Rick Mount/
- > Rocky Nelson/Alex Rocco/Tom Shales/Horst Buchholz/Phil Silvers/
- > Rocky Raccoon (Neal)
- I don't know who all these references -- but since Neal is nomail
- for a while, I'll do some of them. All were mentioned because of references
- to rocks (wasn't this the infamous St. Igneous College which came up when
- I mentioned that Ignatius had been misspelled.
- Knute Rockne is a legendary football coach -- many years at Notre
- Dame (??)
- Stone Phillips -- newscaster
- Pebbles Rubble -- character in Flintstones
- Alex Rocco, Horst Buchholz -- actors
- Phil Silvers -- comedian
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- > 7) To symlink (Sue V.)
- symbolic as opposed to hard link directories or files (on unix
- systems, anyway)
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- > 10) John Hinckley (Evelyn)
- It was he who shot former U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside
- a Washington D.C. hotel.
-
- > 18) Parker Brothers/Clue (Joan)
- Parker Brothers is a U.S. company specializing in games, especially
- board games. Clue is one of their games -- although from recent conversation
- we now know that it is not original with them. They are primarily known
- as the publishers of Monopoly.
-
- Joan
-