@RUTGERS.ARPA:SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA (02/13/85)
From: Rob Austein <SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA> Anybody know the origin of the name "Obie" in Jack Chalker's Well World books? He (Obie) claims at one point "My name is actually an acronym but the words are so out of date that they have lost their meaning." Ideas, anybody? -------
gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) (02/14/85)
In article <603@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA writes: >From: Rob Austein <SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA> > >Anybody know the origin of the name "Obie" in Jack Chalker's Well >World books? He (Obie) claims at one point "My name is actually an >acronym but the words are so out of date that they have lost their >meaning." Ideas, anybody? >------- ....I don't know the book in question but the only acronym I could think of to fit "Obie" is "O.B.E." - Order of the British Empire. greg. -- Gregory Rawlins CS Dept.,U.Waterloo,Waterloo,Ont.N2L3G1 (519)884-3852 gjerawlins%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet CSNET {allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins UUCP