wws@siemens.UUCP (William W Smith) (07/20/84)
My roommate commented that events the day before yesterday are very reminiscent of a science fiction book by John Brunner. "Stand On Zanzibar" has characters called muckers who go berserk and kill people. I nominate James Huberty as the country's first mucker. From the book: "It's no coincidence" (COINCIDENCE You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on. --The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan) "that we have muckers. Background: 'mucker' is an Anglicisation of 'amok'. Don't believe anyone who says it's a shifted pronunciation of 'mugger'. You can survive a mugger, but if you want to survive a mucker the best way is not to be there when it happens." Bill Smith princeton!siemens!wws