The Real Poop about the Peace Symbol....

[ll-xn!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (Noh Pindmietrs)]

And those of you what got your cub scout badges for stuff besides drinking
large quantities of Robitusson and writing essays about how you felt probably
know it. The British CND (campaign for nuke disarmament) was looking for a
nice graphic symbol, and decided to use what people now call the peace sign.
Originally, it was a superimposed set of two semaphore (y'know, codes done
with flags. they used to do it back in the days before ballpoint pens) letters
for "N" and "D". Get it? *Nuke leer* *Disarm mama*. Yes, and that's the straight
poop, brothr and sistr units. When you as old as me (I remember when Led Zep was
*new*), these fax float to the surface of one's consciousness de temps en temps.

El viejo sage whose ears have recovered from lve skull.