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Re: Gonk?
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:49:07 GMT
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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>
In lugnet.starwars, Jon Theys writes:
> 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 discussions regarding all things
> Star Wars. Check it out.
>
> Here's a link to the story on Gonk...
> http://www.shavenwookie.com/orhp/history/hist2.html#GONKWAR
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> MTFBWY and stuff
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> Mr L F Braun wrote in message <38A2F951.F3DF1666@pilot.msu.edu>...
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> > Markus Wolf wrote:
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> > > Love the Gonk. Thanks for the directions. I always enjoyed making • robots
> > > when I was a kid. If a part couldn't be used for anything else (airplane • fin,
> > > jetski handlebars, metal detector) it could always be used in a robot.
> >
> > 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
> > included with a figure, and it is indeed called a "Gonk" Droid on the • package.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Lindsay
> >
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