why is a kermit?

Ron Srodawa srodawa at vela.acs.oakland.edu
Thu Nov 29 04:50:21 AEST 1990


In article <524 at research.cc.flinders.oz> phata at research.cc.flinders.edu.au (Zax) writes:
>
>did you ever get a question that was really simple and obvious but bloody
>near impossible to answer.
>i just got one:
>
>		"Why is kermit called kermit?"

Frank da Cruz answers this in the Kermit book.  It is named after the
famous frog created by Bill Henson.  In the beginning, there were all
kinds of lame excuses about the name, coming from Gaelic and such.
But, in the end, they asked for and received permission to use the
name.  Ron.

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