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From: moeller@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Mars)
Subject: Re: "Hello sailor!" (?)
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 03:28:38 GMT
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In <36fd7n$amo@nntp.Stanford.EDU> wesley@casa (Jon Drukman) writes:

>Will Chose (wchose@opie.bgsu.edu) wrote:
>:    " Oh ye who go about saying unto each 'hello sailor';
>:      Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sins before the gods? "

>: I have always wondered about this since I played Zork in grade school.  I
>: remember being really spooked, and for a long time after that I ran around
>: saying "hello sailor" to the thief, the bat, etc.  My question is, is
>: there any particular basis for "hello sailor" to be a "sin", historical,
>: mythological, or otherwise?  Just curious to see if anyone has any ideas.

>Not really.  try reading the first character of each line in the
>poem... the words don't make sense really, they're just there to give
>the hint to a certain puzzle...

For those of us who have forgotten where this poem lies; where does one
find the poem?

-- 
Mario Moeller  |  moeller@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au
