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2006-10-22 14:24:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Descriptions Please????
2006-10-23 16:50:11 · update #1
Grue may refer to:
Grue (monster), a predator invented by Jack Vance and featured in the Zork series
Grue (Pitch Black), predatory creatures featured in the movie Pitch Black.
Grue (color), a portmanteau coined by philosopher Nelson Goodman to illustrate his "new riddle of induction"
Grue (color), a word occasionally used to translate or discuss words in non-English languages which may refer to blue or green, as described in Distinguishing blue from green in language
Grue, Norway, a municipality
Grue (Freedom City), an alien race in the role-playing game Mutants and Masterminds
Grue Magazine, a horror fiction magazine edited by Peter H. Gilmore and Peggy Nadramia.
Crane (bird), a gruiform
2006-10-22 21:07:22 · answer #1 · answered by Akasha 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The grue first appeared in the text adventure Dungeon which circulated among college computer centers in the late 1970's. Dungeon was later commercialized as Zork.
One of the first locations in the game was a white house. If you tried to go upstairs in the house without first obtaining a light, you were warned that you were likely to be eaten by a grue. If you went upstairs anyway, you were in fact eaten by a grue, and had to restart the game.
I have always assumed that the name "grue" was a back-formation from "gruesome".
The term was also popular among some Dungeons & Dragons players as a name for any unknown but presumably threatening creatures: "There might be a bunch of grues in there; we ought to throw the halfling in first and find out." This could have influenced the Dungeon computer game, or vice versa, as both were popular around the same time period.
2006-10-23 03:56:09 · answer #2 · answered by Newton K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a bird. The word "grue" is from French and means "crane". As for the "mixture" mentionned above it is "roux" and consists of flour and oil to make a base to thicken stews among others.
2006-10-22 23:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by argeesoftware 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a monster from the Infocom text computer games, as in "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
2006-10-22 21:31:43 · answer #4 · answered by Faeldaz M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the legendary monster that kept eating the player in old Zork text games.
2006-10-23 00:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a mixture to start the making of gravy. (could be water &flour
or milk and the leavings in the pan of the meat u just cooked.
2006-10-22 21:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by hkrissi 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋