[extropy-chat] Causes of luddism

[Don Dartfield]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Spike wrote:

> > I grimly await the day some holy Bible coder spills his terrible
> > discovery that NANO is ONAN backwards.
> 
> Damien that was hilarious, but wasted I fear, upon the extropians.  
> They aren't going to grok that one, not one in ten of em.

Is Onan really that obscure a word?  Surely most people have heard of "the
sin of Onan" at the very least.