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slash

Unconfirmed, but implied to be an unusual American military slang term for fuel ethanol. In particular, potable cane alchohol used to fuel modified vehicle engines or possibly purpose-built multifuel engines -- in places where war damage has reduced access to petroleum-based fuels. If genuine, the term may derive from the work of hard laborers using blades to harvest sugar cane fields.

Term appears in a short fiction story by S. M. Sterling, entitled “Lost Legion."

For a while we might solve the problem, if we can find contacts who can get us enough slash to use.

by _/ February 5, 2022

kukai moa

1. The Hawaiian phrase meaning “chicken droppings.”

2. A phrase repurposed by famous science fiction author Robert Heinlein in his novel called “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress,” so that apparently it has the new meaning of “good-for-nothing bureaucratic nonsense” -- especially as typical of functionaries from Earth. The novel explores numerous concepts of "rational anarchism," which might be referred to as minarchism in today's terminology.

Stop this kukai moa!

That minister is giving me loads of kukai moa all the time.

by _/ June 5, 2023