Gopher lets you search for resources using menus. It originated at the University of Minnesota which has (as you guessed it) a gopher for a mascot. Insted of accessing with the adress of the domain, you select any entry in a gopher menu and like the human "gofers' of the world, Gopher goes out for the material you want. Gopher is like a regular library subject catalog and it will search for the holdings of many libraries for your subject.
gopher fatty.law.cornell.edu which is the Cornell Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School.

edu - educational institute

other domain adresses are as follows:
com - commercial and buisness
gov - government institutions
mil - military institutions
net - network recorces
org - other organizations

If you're confused thus still on how gopher searches operate. See your system administrator, media specialist, brilliant friend or librarian for help!
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A group of individuals that give back to the community in many ways. Most notably by making everyone feel better about themselves by seeing how much worse their lives could be.
I may not have the best life, but at least I'm not a member of the Tropical Gophers.
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When you clog the toilet at work and then you use the toilet brush to push the clog further in the hole. The next person who flushes overflows the toilet.
I got fired because I was gopher hunting and the boss floated my doo onto his shoe!
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The sexual act participation of fellatio or cullingus aka “eating out” while one is doing seconds or number 2 aka doo or doing the doo
Liza, tired of regular lunch breaks, was genuinely enthusiastic about her tryst with Louise which involved a gopher brunch to the song “Dig that Groove” by UK 🇬🇧 Punk Band The Toy Dolls.

After a taste-tester Petra and Charlie went “down” for a gopher brunch while perfecting a stranger and jiving to NOFX song “Liza and Louise” which was track 17 on Punk-O-Rama volume 1
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Verb; to cover a height challenged or little person in succulent soil while they are perspiring profusely and then urinate on them to wash them clean
After a long day at the construction site and pinched for time, Brian sought out a friend to give him a golden gopher, so he could get home before his wife found out about his extra curricular activities
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Put your lady between the mattress and the box spring half way down the the torso, mounting her from behind.
So the wife and I tried something new, gopher style
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One who "goes for green" i.e. likes to smoke weed. May be used derisively towards a mooch (he/she that does not contribute but merely partakes of the green)
Damn, son, that bitch is a real Gopher Green, she smoked up all of my bud.
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