Re: Armageddon, or some such ...

[metlay <idis!cisunx!mpmst1@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>]

In article <63@lennon.austek.oz>, Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes:
> Really-From: munnari!lennon.austek.oz.au!kwood@uunet.UU.NET (Ken Wood)
> On a different note, I vaguely recall hearing that Babooshka is a
> figure from Russian mythology. Can anyone confirm or deny this, and
> supply a little more information ?

"Babooshka" is the diminuitive for "Baba," which is "grandmother" in Russian.
Period. (the colloquial usage, for the headscarf worn by Eastern European
peasant women, is idiomatic.)

"His pulse exploded as he ripped off her babooshka"
						   --Snoopy, trying to be racy

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