Okay, I give up. What is the real story?
Kevin D. Quitt
kdq at demott.COM
Sat Nov 17 11:51:43 AEST 1990
In article <1990Nov16.060233.4305 at nntp-server.caltech.edu> terry at wag.caltech.edu (Terry R. Coley) writes:
>On the route to Las Vegas from LA on Interstate 15 one passes
>a road in the middle of the desert named "xyzzy" (or was it actually
>"xyzzx"?). Anyone know which came first - the Adventure magic
>word or the road sign? More importantly, one wonders where xyzzy road
>leads...
Actually, it's Zzyzx, what was supposedly (according to the guy who
made it up) oatented as the last word in the English language. From
this fame this person (a developer), built a small sommunity by that name.
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