Subject: Re: Misc questions
From: ArtMouton (moutona@acadian.net)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 17:25:45 CDT
How about the ant from Le Cigale and La Fourmi - from Aesop's Fables
While the Grasshopper (cigale or Microsoft) played around during the good
times, the ant (fourmi) took the time to prepare for the hard times.
Maybe Aesop was quite ahead of his times.
Art Mouton
Art & Cathy Mouton
Lafayette, LA
moutona@acadian.net
stboutan@acadian.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. David B. Teague" <dbteague@quixnet.net>
To: "Sam TH" <sam@uchicago.edu>; "Lan Barnes" <lbarnes@san.rr.com>
Cc: "abiword" <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: Re: Misc questions
>
> The ant is small but works hard. It can lift many times its weight. Sounds
> like AbiWord to me.
>
> Since I don't have clue as to the origins, a _possible_ origin is the
> phrase, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard..." which praises the ant for its
> industry. Is the quote from Proverbs? I must depend on memory as I have
> neither my copy of Bartlett's Quotes nor a Bible at hand.
>
> David Teague
> dbteague@quixnet.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>
> To: Lan Barnes <lbarnes@san.rr.com>
> Cc: abiword <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Misc questions
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> > A couple of gee-whiz questions:
> >
> > 1. What is the origin of the name "abiword"? (I keep wondering if it's
> from
> > the aberrant brain in "The Young Frankenstein": Abby Normal.)
>
> Abi is the root of the spanish word abierto, which means open.
>
> >
> > 2. What is the origin of the blue ant icon? Not the artist's name (that
> > would be nice) but why?
> >
>
> I don't know why, but the artist is Scott Boesch, I believe.
>
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