(Forwarding a reply for Yahoo user Laura <[email protected]>, please reply to the list or to her, not to me!):
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Gerardo @neorigami.com < [email protected]> wrote: > So in a nutshell, where does the waterbomb name come from, in the case of > the traditional origami ,and what made the name so popular? I can add very little backwards. But this is what I know: by the late 50`s there was quite a discussion about the names of the origami bases, and Gershon Legman was totally against calling it a "waterbomb" as he thought it unnecessary to give children more violent ideas (he advocated against violence in the mass media). So he discussed the topic with Randlett and Harbin who were leading the subject on the base names, but it seems the old name prevailed. Laura Rozenberg PS: I also always wondered why that name, where it originated.
