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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
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Matthew T. Russotto (russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com) wrote:
> In article <3950.6966T39T1545@fair.net>,
> Richard H. Poser II  <rhposer@fair.net> wrote:
> }Here begins a transcript of interaction with
> }ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire
> }Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
> }ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.
> }Revision 88 / Serial number 840726
> [...]
> }>xyzzy
> }A hollow voice says "Fool.", then "Oh alright, just this once."

> Curiously enough, in some earlier revisions the voice said "Cretin."
> I wonder if people didn't understand "Cretin", or perhaps they didn't
> mind being called a fool but objected to being called a cretin? Or
> maybe Infocom wanted the 1.5 bytes back.

Some native of Crete complained?

--Z

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