Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams, alt.folklore.urban, rec.arts.books
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From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1996/01/26
Subject: Re: Was Lola a Girl or Boy?

snopes@netcom.com (snopes) writes:

> Jessica Krucek (allro...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

> > Hate to burst you bubble, ladies, aliens, and mutants - but "Lola"
> > is the name of the Kinks's song, and "Lolitia" is the name of that
> > "famous book by Nabokov"

> Thanks for the references.  Do you have an ISBN for either one?

Snoping again, eh?  We all know that the ISBN for _Loalitia_ was
confiscated by the FBI for the obvious reasons.  And "Lola" is a song,
not a book.  So instead of an ISBN, it has an ISSN.

ObUL: One of the candidates for the DoD standard computer language was
      code-named "Lolita".

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil