From: B Lin <lin@r...>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:33:06 -0600
Subject: RE: Hover Tank bumper sticker
That would be a picture of a Kra'vak and a can of "OFF" spray... --Binhan > -----Original Message-----
Hover Tank bumper sticker
From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 19:33:49 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Hover Tank bumper sticker
Hudak, Michael schrieb: > > >> "Bug Off!"
From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:57:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Hover Tank bumper sticker
> B Lin wrote: Question for all and asundry: when did the K'V become 'bugs'? Maybe it's just me, but they don't strike me as being bug-like in any fashion. :-/ So looking for clarification.
From: Brian Bilderback <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:04:18 -0700
Subject: Re: Hover Tank bumper sticker
> From: Indy <kochte@stsci.edu> > Question for all and asundry: when did the K'V become 'bugs'? I suppose there was an assumption based on the "Bugs Don't Surf!" title that Bugs, for whatever reason, is a common slang term for aliens, and is possible as one picked for the KV. Of course, we could be wrong. 3B^2
From: B Lin <lin@r...>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:08:46 -0600
Subject: RE: Hover Tank bumper sticker
It actually should have read- picture of "alien/enemy of choice" and a can of "Off" spray to keep it in the spirit of generic-ness. --Binhan
From: Henrix <henrix@p...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:23:21 +0200
Subject: Re: Hover Tank bumper sticker
> At 11:04 2002-05-15 -0700, Brian Bilderback wrote: > that Bugs, for whatever reason, is a common slang term for aliens, and When I first read about Kra'Vak they reminded me of the kafer (or käfer*, as it should really be, it's german) the nast aliens in [Traveller] 2300 AD. Käfer means crabs, and so scaly things > Bugs! And, well, there are precedents... * If the umlauts work, of course. ____
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Hover Tank bumper sticker
> --- Indy <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote: > Question for all and asundry: when did the K'V All rapacious Western foreigners are Franks to the Byzantines, right? Even Catalans. So... Human SF has portrayed invading slobbering monsters as typically insectlike. So the natural assumption, long before we found any actual Kra'Vak corpses to dissect. And so the name sticks.