From pycyn@aol.com Sat May 13 07:50:59 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10424 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 14:50:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 May 2000 14:50:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d09.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.41) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 May 2000 14:50:57 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v26.7.) id a.ae.4fe60f3 (3988) for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:50:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:50:53 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Loglan joke To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 33 From: pycyn@aol.com Long before there was a Worf (are we testing the sappier Worf hypothesis?), at least as a good guy (Bennett and Fischmann despair of my memory for Sterndreck chronology), a cartoon appeared in one of those off-center one-cells (Bound and Gagged? Non Sequitur? Far Side?) in which a little space ship landed on a man's bald hed and a little BEM stepped out, planted a flag and said "A small step for a mrenu, a giant leap for mrenu-kind" mrenu is (or was then, early '80's) the Loglan (there was no Lojban either) word for human, lb remna. Rex sold the joke and rough sketch to whoever produced the final piece.