From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   John F. Eldredge  wrote:   
   >I am American, and learned the term "boffin" from reading British novels,   
   >back in the late 1970s.   
      
   I'm not sure where I picked it up.  Possibly from Harry Turtledove's   
   _Worldwar_ series, in which his David Goldfarb character works with   
   some of them.   
      
   --   
      David Goldfarb          |"The gentle journey jars to stop;   
   goldfarbdj@gmail.com       | The drifting dream is done.   
   goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  | The long gone goblins loom ahead;   
                              | The deadly, that we thought were dead,   
                              | Stand waiting, every one."   -- Walt Kelly   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)