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| (...) Hey, do we have that message archived from our own LUGNETter who has (and may be) the original story of the "Gonk" name? If it's any consolation, it now appears to have official Lucasfilm sanction: The recent Star Wars toys have such a droid (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| As far as I know, Gonk's name came from the RASSM (rec.arts.scifi.starwars.misc) ng. For those of you who aren't RASSM'ers (AKA rats, depending on personal preference), you're missing out on a lot of (sometimes) interesting (sometimes) wacky (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) (URL) If it's any consolation, it now appears to (...) Awright!!! --Todd (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| <Star Wars Freak hat> It's called "Gonk" because that's a sort of onomatopoetic version of the noise that one of these power droids makes whilst sitting in the jawa's landcrawler in Episode IV. -Cheese </Star Wars Freak hat> (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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