amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik) (02/19/91)
>[In response to the question "Is the peace sign the cross upside down?"]
A friend of mine heard a better one at a peace vigil at the Capitol
building a couple of weeks ago: that it was the cross reversed,
broken, and urinated around. Lovely, hm?
Actually, the peace sign was derived by combining the semaphore sigil
for "n" and for "d" -- and the combination is meant to stand for
"Nuclear Disarmament."
Alas, not nearly so dramatic or pernicious as some would like to
believe.
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