Thanks -- this has been most enlightening.  I thought I had missed a meeting
or something.  'Well, I guess I did, didn't I?

Betty

In a message dated 11/06/2000 8:43:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Hi Betty,
>
>  "To Grok" is a martian word (cf Robert A Heinlein "Stranger in a Strange
>  Land" (1961)) which literally means "to drink". Valentin Michael Smith is
>  brought up from infancy on Mars (by Martians), and when he is brought back
>  to Earth 20 years later by a rescue mission he "groks the human race". It
is
>  a quasi religious metaphor in Martian culture for having a profound
>  appreciation for something.
>
>  Us Nerds have rather taken the word over - its in the 1998 New Hackers
>  Dictionary.
>
>  More than you ever wished to know!!!
>
>
>  Deri James
>


Betty
aut viam inveniam aut faciam
"I will either find a way or make one."