richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/03/89)
In article <132@hcr.UUCP> edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes: >In article <13869@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.UUCP writes: >>Why not just call it "ix"? (Or how about "Kix"?) :-) > >Can't do that. Everyone knows that "ix" is a word in the ancient >Betelguesian tongue that means: > >"Boy who cannot adequately explain what a Great Hrung is nor why it >should choose to collapse upon Betelguese 7." It's also the name for the world with intelligent machines in _Dune_. -- ``I'm from New York. I hate everywhere else'' - anon richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV