[Ads-l] Is mother of all bombs sexist?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Officially "Massive Ordnance Air Blast."

"Mother of All Bombs" is an acronymic joke, esp. since it's only 11 tons of
TNT. (The Hiroshima bomb equalled 18,000 tons.)

JL

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:34 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, we've got the Mother of All Bombs, but she doesn't have the
> bang-for-the-buck of Russia's Father of All Bombs. Now that's sexism.
> Further proof of a Trump-Putin collusion to impose sharia law on women.
> (And why should the Father of the A Bomb be a man? There certainly were
> scads of women working on the Manhattan Project who had vital input into
> nuclear fission development.)
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