Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Obie Message-ID: <6963@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 22:33:11 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6963 Posted: Wed Feb 13 22:33:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:00:40 EST References: <603@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 Summary: In article <603@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:SRA@MIT-XX.ARPA writes: >From: Rob Austein> >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acronym but the words are so out of date that they have lost their 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