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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: abiword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. sam th --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ OpenPGP Key: CABD33FC --- http://samth.dyndns.org/key DeCSS: http://samth.dynds.org/decss ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
