At 12:31 PM -0400 on 10/20/00, David Honig wrote:


> Amusing cross-language double-entendre there, Petro.  Robot is from
> "slave", in Czech IIRC.

Slave, being, of course, an Anglo-Latin(Italian?) derivation of, heh, Slav.

;-).

Cheers,
RAH
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