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Re: MG name

To: "Ramm, Andy" <ARAMM@sv.tbgi.com>
Subject: Re: MG name
From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 15:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, Ramm, Andy wrote:

> I always thought it stood for Morris Garages.  Is this right?  That's 
> what my dad said and he comes from the land o' MOWOG.  BTW, what does 
> MOWOG stand for anyway?

MOrrisWOlseleyGroup

I have heard MOrrisWOlseleymG, but that doesn't parse.  I've never read a
truly authoritative explanation.  So I could be wrong (yes, I know it's 
unlikely).

"Twas MOWOG, and the slithy toves, didst gire and gimbol in the wabe, all
mimsy were the borograves, and the mome raths outgrabe..." 

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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