At 11:21 PM Saturday 11/10/2007, Matt Grimaldi wrote: >Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Welcome to Brin-L, by the way! > > > > What is the fascination (mania? obsession?) with the word "maru" on this > > > list? The only maru I'm familiar with is the Kobyashi Maru from Star > > > Trek and I somehow don't think that is the correct reference. > > > >The Kobyashi Maru would be a red herring. > >This whole thing started because, for a time, there were >a large number of brin-lers that also belonged to the >list for fans of Ian Banks' Culture series. >(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture) > >A feature of the books (I gather) is to name spaceships by their >designation (GCU, ROU, and others, similar to the way that naval ships >are organized into classes based on size, speed, and purpose) along >with something apropos to the personality of the owner, mission, >commander, or whatever (e.g.: ROU Nail in the coffin). > >The members of the Culture list would often put such a ship name in >their signatures even when they were sending messages on Brin-L. >This simply would not do :-), so we started using Maru designations >instead. As to why that particular word, others have better explanations >than I could give.
She's married to Pa-Ru. (No known relationship to Ru Paul.) And welcome to the list. Greetings Maru -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
